...omanly common-sense, but withal refined, in contrast with the uncultured people who surrounded both herself and Lincoln. She had a secret, too, and a sorrow,--the unexplained and painful absence of McNamar ,--which, no doubt, made her all the more interesting to him whose spirit was often even more melancholy than her own. In after years, McNamar himself, describing her to me, said: Miss Rutledge w...