If Woburn's luck had turned the other way she might have married him instead; and if he had confessed his sin to her one evening, as they drove home from the opera in their new brougham, she would have said that really it was of no use to tell her, for she never could understand about business, but that she did entreat him in future to be nicer to Regie Colby.
"The Greater Inclination"
Edith Wharton
H. and his most winning-faced young partner, Collier, Jerome, Peter Dunne, F. M. Colby, and Mark Twain.
"The Letters of William James, Vol. II"
William James
At any rate, I took the boy and called him Terence Colby.
"Black Jack"
Max Brand