26/26 Death seemed to have made Mrs.Wilcox suddenly familiar with her incomprehensible husband. She was convinced that whatever he had thought of it on earth, in heaven, purged from all mortal weakness, Mr.Wilcox was taking a very different view of Molly's engagement. The bride is reported to have summed up the case thus: "Bad? I'm not marrying him because he is good; I'm marrying him because he's delightful. And I'm every bit as bad as he is, if they only knew." It was Mrs.Nevill Tyson's genius for this sort of remark that helped to make her reputation later on.. |