


Willie Wilde married his fiancée, Lily Lees, that January, as planned. The last I heard of him, he had opened an exhibition in the seaside resort of Margate, with, as his star attraction, Phoebe the Strange Girl. It seems that he did not leave England as he had planned, but moved across London from Whitechapel to Croydon, where he married a music-hall artiste named Amy and together, in short order, they had six sons and four daughters. Mina Mathers is still alive, the head of the occult order, the Alpha et Omega, which she runs from a magic shop near the British Library, with the assistance of her devoted acolyte Walter Wellbeloved, now in his mid-seventies and still mourning his beloved mermaid.
