seriously. She had never heard of Tallyrand and did not understand epigrams.
Anne spent a fortnight of halcyon days at Echo Lodge in the golden prime of
August. While there she incidentally contrived to hurry Ludovic Speed in his
leisurely courting of Theodora Dix, as related duly in another chronicle of her
history.(1) Arnold Sherman, an elderly friend of the Irvings, was there at the
same time, and added not a little to the general pleasantness of life.