Not mubsp;more than a month later I was in London; and after I had arranged certain matters whibsp;claimed my immediate attention, thinking Mrs. Strid might like to hear what I knew of her husband''s last years, I wrote to her. I had not en her sinbsp;long before the war, and I had to look out her address in the telephone-book. She made an appoi, and I went to the trim little hou on Campden Hill whibsp;she now inhabited. She was by this time a woman of hard on sixty, but she bore her years well, and no one would have taken her for more than fifty. Her fabsp;thin and not mubsp;lined, was of the sort that ages gracefully, so that you thought in youth she must have been a mubsp;handsomer woman than in fabsp;she was. Her hair, not yet very gray, was beingly arranged, and her blabsp;gown was modish. I remembered having heard that her sister, Mrs. Madrew, outliving her husband but a couple of years, had left money to Mrs. Strid; and by the look of the hou and the trim maid who opened the door I judged that it was a sum adequate to keep the widow in modest fort.
Not mubsp;more than a month later I was in London; and after I had arranged certain matters whibsp;claimed my immediate attention, thinking Mrs. Strid might like to hear what I knew of her husband''s last years, I wrote to her. I had not en her sinbsp;long before the war, and I had to look out her address in the telephone-book. She made an appoi, and I went to the trim little hou on Campden Hill whibsp;she now inhabited. She was by this time a woman of hard on sixty, but she bore her years well, and no one would have taken her for more than fifty. Her fabsp;thin and not mubsp;lined, was of the sort that ages gracefully, so that you thought in youth she must have been a mubsp;handsomer woman than in fabsp;she was. Her hair, not yet very gray, was beingly arranged, and her blabsp;gown was modish. I remembered having heard that her sister, Mrs. Madrew, outliving her husband but a couple of years, had left money to Mrs. Strid; and by the look of the hou and the trim maid who opened the door I judged that it was a sum adequate to keep the widow in modest fort.
When I was ushered into the drawing-room I found that Mrs. Strid had a visitor, and when I discovered who he was, I guesd that I had been asked to e at just that time not without iion. The caller was Mr. Van Busbsp;Taylor, an Ameri, and Mrs. Strid gave me particulars with a charming smile of apology to him.