Billy Married

Excerpt:

…In yet another home that evening was the wedding of Billy Neilson and

Bertram Henshaw uppermost in thought and speech. In a certain little South-

End flat where, in two rented rooms, lived Alice Greggory and her crippled

mother, Alice was talking to Mr. M. J. Arkwright, commonly known to his

friends as ``Mary Jane,'' owing to the mystery in which he had for so long

shrouded his name.

Arkwright to-night was plainly moody and ill at ease.

``You're not listening. You're not listening at all,'' complained Alice Greggory…


About Author:

Eleanor Emily Hodgman Porter (December 19, 1868 – May 21, 1920) was an American novelist.

Porter mainly wrote children's literature, adventure stories and romance fiction. Her most famous novel is Pollyanna (1913), later followed by a sequel, Pollyanna Grows Up (1915). Her adult novels include The Turn of the Tide (1908), The Road to Understanding (1917), Oh Money! Money! (1918), Dawn (1919), Keith's Dark Tower (1919), Mary Marie (1920), and Sister Sue (1921); her short story collections include Across the Years (c. 1923), Money, Love and Kate (1923), Little Pardner (1926).