Volume VII - Modernist Magazines Project

A CorrespondenceBy Netta SyrettI" T THINK she is perfectly lovely," Mrs. Yeo exclaimed,1 enthusiastically.She made a slight indicative movement towards the far cornerof the drawing-room, where the folds of a white dress and thefeathery edges of a fan were just visible from her corner of thesofa." Ah, I thought you would be surprised."Mrs. Lockyer spoke in the proprietary tone of one who hasdiscovered some priceless treasure and for the first time displays itto the gaze of the multitude." They are altogether an ideal couple, aren't they ?" shecontinued. " I always say he is quite ridiculously good-looking—too handsome for a mere man ! "" They met in Rome, you say ? "" Yes, quite lately , only a few weeks ago, in fact, when theArmstrongs were travelling in Italy. He'd hardly known her a weekbefore he proposed, and it's scarcely a fortnight now since the daythey met—so her mother says. This is his last evening. He'sgoing back to-morrow to Rome ; he has some work to finish there,I understand