Fortunately, or unfortunately--the
choice of the adverb depends upon the views taken of the value of
detailed analysis of marriage problems--Miss King had not come across
any man of a suitable kind who wanted to marry her. She had, on the
other hand, met a large number of people who praised, and a few who
abused her. She liked the flattery, and was pleased to be pointed out
as a person of importance. She regarded the abuse as a tribute to the
value of her work, knowing that all true prophets suffer under the evil
speaking of a censorious world. Latterly she had begun to consider
whether she might not secure the praise, without incurring the blame,
by writing novels of a different kind. With a view to perfecting a new
story of adventure and perfectly respectable love, she determined to
isolate herself for a couple of months. As certain Irishmen played a
part in her story, she fixed upon Connacht as the place of her
retirement, intending to study the romantic Celt on his native soil. A
house advertised in the columns of _The Field_ seemed to offer her the
opportunity she desired. She took it and the fishing attached to it;
having bargained with her uncle, Sir Gilbert Hawkesby, that she was to
be relieved of the duty of catching salmon, and that he should pay a
considerable part of the heavy rent demanded by the local agent.
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