I know of her, though; she is very well known,' said Althea rather coldly; for Mrs.Bigham was an excessively fashionable and reputedly reckless lady who had divorced one husband and married another, and whose doings filled more scrupulous circles with indignation and unwilling interest.
'Then I met a dear little woman in Oxford once,' said Miss Buchanan.
'She was studying there--she had come from a college in America.

She was so nice and clever, and charming, too; quaint and full of flavour.

She was going to teach in a college when she went back.

She was very poor, quite different from the others.

Her father, she told me, kept a shop, but didn't get on at all; and her brother, to whom she was devoted, sold harmoniums.