" No doubt, my marriage had something to do with this. Probably one couldn't borrow much money directly in New York on the strength of a fashionable marriage; but, so all-pervading is the snobbishness there, one can get, by making a fashionable marriage, any quantity of that deferential respect from rich people which is, in some circumstances, easily convertible into cash and credit. I waited with a good deal of anxiety, as you may imagine, for the early editions of the afternoon papers.

The first article my eye chanced upon was a mere wordy elaboration of the brief and vague announcement Monson had put in the _Herald_. Later came an interview with old Ellersly. "Not at all mysterious," he had said to the reporters.

"Mr. Blacklock found he would have to go abroad on business soon-he didn't know just when. On the spur of the moment they decided to marry.