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Hugh Massinger, Esq., was a person of some distinction as a novelist, and an esthetic dabbler in Gothic mysteries. His novel "The Torch Lily" had had a great sale, especially in the United States, where an enthusiastic reviewer had compared it to Flaubert's "Salambo. " Hugh Massinger had edited "Marie de France" and the "Romance of the Rose," issued an abridged "Froissart," and published books on "The Medieval Colour-sense," and "The Higher Love of Provence. " His poems, sensuous, Swinburnian fragments, full of purple sunsets and precious stones, roses, red mouths and white bosoms had fascinated some of those erotic and over-civilised youngsters who turn from Kipling as from raw meat.
When Miss Champion offered Eve the post of secretary to Hugh Massinger, she accepted it as a piece of unexpected good fortune, for it seemed to be the very berth that she had hoped for, but feared to get.