Excerpt from Cynthia, Vol. 2 of 2: A Daughter of the Philistines

Cynthia was terribly grieved and startled. She dashed off eight pages of love and inquiries by the evening mail, and when the news was confirmed, with more particulars, she felt she could do no less than run over to utter her sympathy in person.

Kent agreed that perhaps it was advisable, and raised the money that was necessary cheerfully enough by pawning his watch and chain. Only when she sent him a rather lengthy telegram from Streatham, detailing her mother's frame of mind, he felt that she was exaggerating his share in her solicitude.

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