Excerpt from Siren City

It seems that Mrs. Cayley's last ball had been given in order to let it be discovered how Roland and Rebecca would conduct themselves when a number of keen eyes were upon them. If Rebecca had been a widow the curiosity would doubtless have been almost as great, but being a wife who had suffered much from a foreign husband in a foreign city, and being also a refugee from matrimony, she became the absorbing topic of the evening. What had irritated her friends had been her resolute silence about the events of her short married months. It displayed too much wisdom and self dependence, and Lady Middlemass, not long a widow and as young as Rebecca, felt specially aggrieved, and called her a dangerous woman. That all the men were still her adorers made things not better but worse. What had happened during the ten months sojourn at Naples? That was the question dancing on all lips and in all eyes while the feet were dancing on the floor. No one even knew where her husband was, although there was a rumour that he was now in prison.

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