Crossword-Solution: ROXANNE 7 letters, 36 clues 🏆 scrabble score: 14

Why did her name not linger in popular songs and vaudeville jokes and cigar bands, and the memory of that gay old uncle of yours along with Lillian Russell and Stella Mayhew and Anna Held? Roxanne Milbank--whither had she gone? What dark trap-door had opened suddenly and swallowed her up? Her name was certainly not in last Sunday’s supplement on the list of actresses married to English noblemen.

Had Roxanne Milbank played three dozen parts and filled five thousand houses she could never have had a role with more happiness and more despair than were in the fate prepared for Roxanne Curtain.

Roxanne had gathered from Jeffrey that Harry’s wife was not as attractive as Harry--Jeffrey had met her once and considered her--“shallow.” But Harry had been married nearly two years and was apparently happy, so Jeffrey guessed that she was probably all right.

Bring her out!” They were at the porch steps now and Roxanne made a brisk gesture toward a dilapidated structure on the right.

Meanwhile to that I will mix a cocktail.” The two men ascended to the second floor--that is, they ascended half-way, for at the first landing Jeffrey dropped his guest’s suitcase and in a cross between a query and a cry exclaimed: “For God’s sake, Harry, how do you like her?” “We will go up-stairs,” answered his guest, “and we will shut the door.” Half an hour later as they were sitting together in the library Roxanne reissued from the kitchen, bearing before her a pan of biscuits.