Man-woman relationships -- Fiction; Missing persons -- Fiction; Mystery fiction; Young women -- Fiction
Miss Enderby returned to the city from her visit to Miss Craigie, and
friends of the family were interested to learn that while away she had
met such a nice young man—a Captain Grey, from India. He had to return
to his regiment, but, before he went, Caroline’s engagement to him was
announced. Later he was to retire from the army and come back to live
in New York.
There was another item of news, of minor importance. That pretty
little secretary of Mrs. Enderby’s got married, and the Enderbys were
wonderfully kind about it—surprisingly so. It didn’t seem at all like
Mrs. Enderby to let the girl be married from her own house, and to
give her a smart little car for a wedding present. What is more, Mr.
Enderby found a very good position in his office for the young man.
“My dear Sophie,” said one of Mrs. Enderby’s old friends, with the
peculiar candor of an old friend, “I’ve never known _you_ to do so
much for any one before!”
Mrs. Enderby was standing on the top doorstep of her house, looking
after the car in which Lexy and her Charles had driven off for their
honeymoon, with Joe, of Wyngate, as their chauffeur.
“So much for her?” she said. “It’s not enough—not half enough!”
And there were actually tears in her eyes as she went back into the
house where Caroline was.
[Transcriber’s Note: This story appeared in the February 1926 issue of
Munsey’s Magazine.]
Public-domain text, read in full here on John Shaqi.
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