Sublime

Susan Cornelia Clarke Warren,

Henry and Clover Adams,

(I thought this one’s name was not Madison but Addison, and then I thought that surely I had to be making that up).

Cladastris luteas, yellowwoods,

Helene Wright was an impressive woman, at least in Medallion she was. Heavy hair in a bun, dark eyes arched in a perpetual query about other people’s manners. A woman who won all social battles with presence and a conviction of the legitimacy of her authority.

Harloe and Williams

Viola imposed upon her lover but a short probation. They were married, as was becoming, with great privacy, – almost with secrecy, – in the hope perhaps, as was waggishly remarked at the time, that the late Mrs Lloyd wouldn’t hear of it.