Why didn Alice Low (nee Baker) marry Frank Hudleston?
Ivy (p21) writes that the only present that John Hart (Sandy) brought his ladylove was “The Scottish Student’s Songbook” Whereas (Mac – Frank Hudleston): “On Mac’s evenings there was never any music, but he could be counted on to leave a long-necked bottle or a basket of fruit from Fortnum & Mason’s on the hall stand before mounting the stairs to the drawing room. Gracie and Florrie told each other that there could be no comparison, which, of course, they meant any comparison was entirely in Mac’s favor. That Wyn could hesitate for a moment was more than they could understand. “By their fruits ye shall know them!” cried Florrie, biting into the flushed cheek of a hothouse peach. “It isn’t only that, it’s the whole style – of the man,” Gracie said reprovingly, digging into the skin of a tangerine with her thumbnail.” Thus Sandy is depicted as being relatively mean but Mac’s generosity is later put down merely to the fact that he had independent means. Ivy (p.23): “Sandy would rather die
