Thanks for the idfic! It left me wanting to find out about Rosamund Nesbit Bland -- and I was disappointed I couldn't find out more about her from the internet. She tried to run off with H. G. Wells but was stopped by her father. She ended up marrying Clifford Sharp, the first editor of the New Statesman in 1909, the same year that her story came out. It seems to have been a generally unsatisfactory marriage and she had to support the family by working at at advertising agency.