The Adventures of a Modest Man

by Robert W. Chambers

"No; she married into the British Peerage. No, Landon didn't do anything of that sort. Quite the contrary."

"He—he didn't marry his model, did he?"

"Yes—in a way."

"In a way?"

Williams summoned a waiter who shifted his equipment to my table.

"It's rather an unusual story," he said. "Would you care to hear it?"

"Does it portray, with your well known literary skill, the confusion of a parent?" I inquired cautiously. "If it does, don't tell it."

"It doesn't."

"Oh. Nobody puts it all over the old man?"