4/11 Nella was looking through the window; her father stood behind. Wouldn't you love to have a name like that, Father--something that people could take hold of--instead of Racksole ?' The sound of violins and a confused murmur of voices rose gently up to them. 'Curse those evening papers!' he added, inconsequently but with sincerity. What have the evening papers been doing ?' 'Well, my young madame, they've got me in for one, and you for another; and they're manufacturing mysteries like fun. It's young Dimmock's death that has started 'em.' 'Well, Father, you surely didn't expect to keep yourself out of the papers. |