You know Keston is my most intimate friend--he is one of the best fellows in the world--and it stands to reason that his wife should be my good friend too." "Yes, but there are limits, Malcolm." "Of course there are limits," rather irritably; "but if I were to talk for ever I should never make you understand, mother.

In the first place, you have never seen Verity--I mean Mrs.Keston.She is the product of a modern age.

From babyhood she has lived among artists.

She has imbibed their Bohemianism and learnt to talk their jargon.

A studio has been her nursery, playroom, and schoolroom, and as soon as she grew up she married an artist." "But all this does not prove that she is not to be treated with the respect due to a married woman, Malcolm." "My dear mother, there is no question of respect.