" "Cassandra, that man is a devil.

Cassandra is a servant in a neighboring eating-house, a tall, large-boned woman, a colored handkerchief tied over her head, and much tawdry jewelry about her hands and neck.

"Cassandra," he said at last, growing ashy pale, "is there any other world than this we are in now?" I raised my eyes, and saw my own pale face in the glass over the mantel above his head.

The Cassandra was a new ship of 380 tons, on her first voyage.

'Cassandra' and 'Cleopatra' were romances from the French of Gautier de Costes, Seigneur de la Calprenède, who died in 1663.