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Updated: May 27, 2025
Goodness gracious, but they're rich, these Rollses! I could make a pun about their name and their money, but I won't, because it would be cheap, and nothing is cheap at Sea Gull Manor. You can get a faint idea what the house and the view are like from the hand-painted sketch at the top of this paper on the left of the fat gold crest.
Because I haven't met many others, I don't know whether or not the Rollses are just like all American millionaires who don't come abroad, or unique. But I have an idea they're unique. This is the most enormous house, built and named to please Ena, though it's no more a manor than the Albert Hall is. I don't believe she knows what "manor" means.
If only Ena had known enough about earls and their families to be sure whether Lord Raygan and Eileen would, in their secret hearts, think the ways of the Rollses endlessly quaint or melting, she might have been spared sleepless nights. Because the difference between those two adjectives would mean the difference between ecstasy and despair for her.
"I'm pleased with myself and everybody else," replied Eileen. "This is one of my happy nights." "I wonder why? There's sure to be a dull crowd at dinner. I've found out now the Rollses know all the wrong lot." "I found that out long ago. But I don't care. And I'm going to sit by Petro. So I shall be all right." "You've jolly well been with him the whole blessed day.
For the addition of a model, dressmaking golliwog to the family would be the final obstacle. Lord Raygan was now undecided. He was perhaps waiting to see how the rest of the Rollses shaped up. If he could stand them as relations, all would be well. All must be well! That night Win wore for her walk a long blue coat in place of the mackintosh.
But she could not sleep. She made pictures of Lord Raygan and his mother and Lady Eileen visiting at their house on Long Island. Would they think it more "swell" of the Rollses to be living in the country than in New York?
I haven't met many Americans here yet because the Rollses somehow don't seem to know the right ones, and Ena makes excuses for that, too. I wish she wouldn't. It gets on my nerves, and Rag's nerves as well, I fancy, though he doesn't say so, and he's thinking a lot about whether she'll do.
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