"_I_ think it an honest face, myself, I may tell you." She scrutinised it long and closely with a magnifier.

Then she put her head on one side and mused very deliberately.

"Madeline Shaw gave me her photograph the other day, and said to me, as she gave it, 'I do so like these modern portraits; they show one WHAT MIGHT HAVE BEEN.'" "You mean they are so much touched up!" "Exactly.

That, as it stands, is a sweet, innocent face--an honest girl's face--almost babyish in its transparency but...

the innocence has all been put into it by the photographer." "You think so ?" "I know it.