The Gay Cockade

How it begins

A woman, who under sentence of death could plan immediately for a trip to the circus, might seem at first thought incredibly light-minded. You had, however, to know Anne Dunbar and the ten years of her married life to understand. Her husband was fifteen years her senior, and he had few illusions. He had fallen in love with Anne because of a certain gay youth in her which had endured throughout the days of a dreadful operation and a slow convalescence.