Aet. 46, to the sister of Lady Randolph Churchill and wife of Sir John Leslie, 2nd Baronet (succeeded to the title in 1916) of County Monaghan, Ireland.
George Moore saw William Orchardson’s Trouble and portraits of Mrs. Fairfax Rhodes and Mrs. Pattison at the annual Summer Exhibition of the Royal Academy. Mrs. Fairfax Rhodes was wardrobed in black.
George’s hackneyed quotation came from Chapter 31 of George Eliot’s novel Middlemarch (1871–1872): “Are we not formed, as notes of music are, for one another, though dissimilar, and like in harmonies?” He used it again on the first page of Avowals (1919), referring to his friendship with Edmund Gosse.
The sequel to Evelyn Innes (published 6 June 1898) was his next novel, Sister Teresa (1901).
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