Of course she had "a fiend of a temper." "Wish you joy of her! Oh, don't ask me about her! You'll find out for yourself." "I can manage her," said Uncle Charles tranquilly.

"I've had so many of 'em." "She is Spanish ?" "Not at all.

She is Italian.

That is to say, her mother was a Neapolitan, the daughter of a jeweller in Hatton Garden, and her father an English bank clerk.

The Neapolitans have a lot of Spanish blood in them--hence, no doubt, the physique." "And she is a professional model!" "Nothing of the sort!--though she will probably become one.