Mrs.Seddon, thin, careworn and slackly good-natured, ever lamented the loss of an astonishingly brilliant husband; Jane was markedly the more competent of the two.

She had character, and, even while slaving for the romantic youth, made it clear to him that for no other man alive would she so demean herself.

Paul resolved to undertake her education.
The months slipped by golden with fulfilment.

News of the beautiful boy model went the round of the studios.

Those were simpler times (although not so very long ago) in British art than the present, and the pretty picture was still in vogue.