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Mrs. Beverley, who, on account of her reckless expenditure, had been nicknamed "The Wild Widow" by a certain set in Society, had gone up to Perthshire to join a gay house-party at a shooting lodge near Crieff, leaving Sylvia at home at Upper Brook Street.
After the girl there was dangling a Peer of the Realm, twice her age, in the person of Viscount Hendlewycke, a penniless man, whose family tree ran back to the days of Richard Coeur de Lion, and who, in his youth, had been distinguished by his two appearances in the Divorce Court as co-respondent.