“If she’s the person I think she is,” Agnes continued, still looking down, “what you say about her is probably true. And yet—”
“Agnes! Be careful what you say.”
“I’ll be as careful as I know how to be. Trust me.”
“How long have you known her?”
“In one way, of course, you deserve to be wretched. It isn’t all on one side. Do you think it’s nice—?”
“How long have you known her, I ask?”
“A long time. Longer than you have,” she said.
Note from the society column of the New York Times, November 6, 1901:
Mr. and Mrs. Breakspeare are passing their honeymoon in Mediterranean waters on Mr. Breakspeare’s yacht, the “Damascene.”