Well, this was the side of the world where things like that happened.

The boy would naturally attract the women, if the women were at all romantic.

Good looks, with a melancholy cast, always drew sentimental females.

Probably some woman on the loose; they were as thick as flies over here--dizzy blondes.

That is, if Spurlock had been throwing money about, which was more than likely.
"As long as I live, I'll never forget that dress of hers," Prudence declared.
"Out of a family album, you said," Angelina reminded her sister.
O'Higgins struck a match and lit his Henry Clay, thereby drawing upon himself the mutual disapproval of the spinsters.
"Beg pardon," he said, "but isn't smoking allowed in the dining room ?" "It probably is," answered Prudence, "but that in no wise mitigates the odiousness of the procedure." "Plumb in the eye!" said O'Higgins, rising.