He wants a rich wife to finance his plans, and Medora is simply a good advertisement as a convert."
"It occurs to me, my dear, that the Countess Olenska is already a sort of relation--through Medora Manson's first husband.
Its title was read, formally, by the writer; and, quite as formally, the dedication which intervened between title and first stanza,--a dedication to "Medora Townsend Phillips."