Speed, Nell: Molly Brown's Orchard Home. v1. 3 Mar 2015
 

Speed, Nell, 1878-1913

Excerpt
Our passage to Antwerp is really engaged and in two weeks Mother and I will be on the water. I can hardly believe it is I, Molly Brown, about to have this “great adventure.” That is what Mother and I call this undertaking: “Our great adventure.” Mother says it sounds Henry Jamesy and I take her word for it (so far I have not read that novelist), but he must be very interesting, as Mother and Professor Green used to discuss him for hours at a time.