The Age of Innocence

and beautiful that my wife was too dazzled to ask her name.\"

A pleasant glow dilated Archer's heart. There was nothing extraordinary in the tale: any woman would have done as much for a neighbour's child. But it was just like Ellen, he felt, to have rushed in bareheaded, carrying the boy in her arms, and to have dazzled poor Mrs. Winsett into forgetting to ask who she was.

\"That is the Countess Olenska—a granddaughter of old Mrs. Mingott's.\"


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and beautiful that my wife was too dazzled to ask her name.\"

A pleasant glow dilated Archer's heart. There was nothing extraordinary in the tale: any woman would have done as much for a neighbour's child. But it was just like Ellen, he felt, to have rushed in bareheaded, carrying the boy in her arms, and to have dazzled poor Mrs. Winsett into forgetting to ask who she was.

\"That is the Countess Olenska—a granddaughter of old Mrs. Mingott's.\"


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