"I remember it gratefully.
But if you would forget it I should be still more grateful." The painter shook hands with him and smiled.

"You may be sure I haven't the least idea what you're talking about." As for Theatreland, the lower walks in the profession to which Paul had belonged do not cross the paths of high political society.

It lay behind him far and forgotten.

His position was secure.

Here and there an anxious mother may have been worried as to his precise antecedents; but Paul was too astute to give mothers over-much cause for anxiety.