Yet, too, when she had opportunity--when Lady Tynemouth brought them to her--she read the newest and most daring productions of a school of French novelists and dramatists who saw the world with eyes morally astigmatic and out of focus.

Once she had remarked to Alice Tynemouth: "You say I dress well, yet it isn't I.It's my dressmaker.

I choose the over-coloured thing three times out of five--it used to be more than that.

Instinctively I want to blaze.

It is the same in everything.