"Oh, she dropped it quick enough--she thought it rather tiresome.

She's one of the cleverest women I know.

She'd have got a long way up in the world, if it weren't for her second husband--" "Her second ?" "Yes.

The first one didn't do very well.

She told me once, 'If you want to get on, change your name at least once in every three years.' Her second, as it happened, was no better than the first.