...mourning for a near relative. She replied, rather apologetically, that she adopted this dress on account of its convenience, and that English ladies, in traveling, often did so. I remember that Fanny Kemble , who was a cousin of Mrs. Combe, once related the following anecdote to Dr. Howe and myself: Cecilia [Mrs. Combe] had grown up in her mother's shadow, for Mrs. Siddons was to the last such a social ...