Miss Milray was moved to add, “But if you mean another kind, I don't see why not. My own mother was married twice.”
“Was she?” Clementina looked relieved and encouraged, but she did not say any more at once. Then she asked, “Do you know what ever became of Mr. Belsky?”
“Yes. He's taken his title again, and gone back to live in Russia; he's made peace with the Czar; I believe.”
“That's nice,” said Clementina; and Miss Milray made bold to ask:
“And what has become of Mr. Gregory?”
Clementina answered, as Miss Milray thought, tentatively and obliquely: “You know his wife died.”
“No, I never knew that she lived.”
“Yes. They went out to China, and she died the'a.”
“And is he there yet? But of course! He could never have given up being a missionary.”
“Well,” said Clementina, “he isn't in China. His health gave out, and he had to come home. He's in Middlemount Centa.”