'. . . Nora stole a glance at him now and then. He was a tall, well-set-up young fellow, with wavy fair hair that many a girl might have envied, and blue eyes with a perpetual twinkle in their depths. On his part he gazed quite frankly at the girl beside him, admiring her dark eyes and what he could see of her face beneath her pixie . . .'
Annie M. P. Smithson was the most successful of all Irish romantic novelists and all of her novels were bestsellers. Paid in Full, a story of love and courage, is now reprinted for the benefit of new generations who did not have the opportunity to read it.