They might ruin your picture with cheap stuff." "Well," the authoress debated, "maybe I'll leave it.

I'd especially hate to give up Westminster Abbey.

Of course the scene where she is struggling with Count Blessingham might easily be made offensive--it's a strong scene--but it all comes right.

You remember she wrenches herself loose from his grasp and rushes to throw herself before the altar, which suddenly lights up, and the scoundrel is afraid to pursue her there, because he had a thorough religious training when a boy at Oxford, and he feels it would be sacrilegious to seize her again while the light from the altar shines upon her that way, and so she's saved for the time being.

It seems kind of a shame not to use Westminster Abbey for a really big scene like that, don't you think ?" "I should say so!" agreed Merton warmly.