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Looks as if she rode well and knew her own mind. Looks as
if she had been through a good deal of trouble."
"I daresay she has. She was always impetuous, even as a child. That
first marriage was not at all a success. Some foreign scoundrel who
deserted her and vanished. I was in China at the time, but my mother
wrote me about it."
"A first marriage? She never told me about that."
"This second one was a love match. They ran away together. They must
have had a hard time out there at first, living as they did. No doubt
she has learnt to know her own mind; one has to cope with emergencies
in a life like that. He has done well, I hear. A charming fellow, from
all accounts, though I question whether they are properly married even
now."
"Perhaps they can't be," replied Mr. Keith, "in view of the earlier
affair. But how will they educate that boy, in India? It can't be done.
India is no better than Bampopo, for such purposes. Did you do much
educational work in Africa? I hope you were gentle with my friends the
Bulaga?"
"We baptized two or three hundred of them one day.


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