The Craze of Christina — page 242: what you’re looking at

Machine-transcribed from the original scan — historical spelling and the odd misread are preserved.

238 The Craze of Christina. by the more feeble caligraphy of ‘‘Ella Gre- ville,’’ the witness of the marriage. In speechless amazement Clifford looked from one to the other of the sisters, and Chris turned a laughing face towards him, whilst Ella’s downcast countenance was suffused with guilty blushes. He said, however, not one single word until the three found themselves together in the fly which waited outside to take them back to the hotel. “Explain yourselves!’ he then cried, in be- wilderment. ‘‘Why have yousigned that name? Chris, speak the truth at once. What does it mean?’ **It means, my dearest Mark, that you have married a ‘bad-mannered, half-educated, frumpy colonial girl’ after all! Oh, yon see, I have not forgotten any of your complimentary remarks, Mr. Clifford!’’ ‘‘Then—now I understand,’’ he exclaimed, ‘“‘what you meant by ‘your England’ yester- day!”’ ‘‘Well—yes, that is the only slip of the tongue I have made from first to last, I flatter myself!” she answerad, laughing. But Mark did not laugh. He was staring at her solemnly and steadfastly. CONNIE NOO CSO)