Whatever pictures, songs, books or plays were written by anyone who did not belong to "The Circle," these were considered "pretty, but not Tart!" Anything successful was pronounced "Vulgar!" To be artistic in Mrs.Octagon's sense, a work had to possess obscurity, it had to be printed on the finest paper with selected type, and it had to be sold at a prohibitive price.

In this way "Rowena" had produced her works, and her name was not known beyond her small coterie.

All the same, she intimated that her renown was world-wide and that her fame would be commensurate with the existence of the Anglo-Saxon race.

Mrs.Lee Hunter in the Pickwick Papers, also labored under the same delusion.
With Peter lived Mrs.Saxon's children by the eminent Q.C.Basil, who was twenty-five, and Juliet age twenty-two.

They were both handsome and clever, but Juliet was the more sensible of the two.