"Then that's settled! I'll give you a cheque for L100 to-day--and one every six months as long that is, as you're a widow." Then she smiled a little satirically, for Enid had made a quick movement of recoil which Alice Crofton thought rather absurd.
"It's early to think of such a thing, no doubt," she said coolly.

"But still, I shall be very much surprised, Enid, if you do not re-make your life.

I myself have a dear young friend, very little older than you are, who has been married three times.

The War has altered the views and prejudices even of old-fashioned people." "I want to ask you something," said Enid, "d'you think I ought to tell people that I have already been married twice ?" Miss Crofton told herself quickly that such questions are always put with a definite reason, and that she probably would not be called upon to pay her sister-in-law's allowance for very long.
"I don't think you are in the least bound to tell anyone such a fact about yourself, unless"-- she hesitated,--"you were seriously thinking of marrying again.

In such a case as that I think you would be well advised, Enid, to tell the man in question the fact before you become obliged to reveal it to him." There was a pause, and then Miss Crofton abruptly changed the subject by saying something which considerably disturbed her young sister-in-law.
"I should be much obliged, my dear, if you would tell me a few details as to my poor brother's death.