A woman’s husband mysteriously disappears on his and her wedding day.
For Mann, see Novels 016, 154, 204, and 310.
It would make “an excellent melodrama”; the characters are “quite good enough to serve as scaffolding for a plot unusually well conceived.” Saturday Review, September 9, 1893
“The story is above the average . . . better worth reading than many a novel that aims higher.” Athenaeum, September 23, 1893
“Cleverness, grace, and a quiet humour” brighten a story that “might have been rather sombre.” Spectator, September 30, 1893.
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