Always she had ignored herself as part of the picture.

"And won't it be fine for the Exhibition!" Bertram's hand tightened on the chair-back in front of him.

For a moment he could not speak.

Then, a bit huskily, he asked: "Would you dare--risk it ?" "Risk it! Why, Bertram Henshaw, I've meant that picture for the Exhibition from the very first--only I never dreamed you could get it so perfectly lovely.

_Now_ what do you say about Baby being nicer than any old 'Face of a Girl' that you ever did ?" she triumphed.
And Bertram, who, even to himself, had not dared whisper the word exhibition, gave a tremulous laugh that was almost a sob, so overwhelming was his sudden realization of what faith and confidence had meant to Billy, his wife.
If there was still a lingering doubt in Bertram's mind, it must have been dispelled in less than an hour after the Bohemian Ten Club Exhibition flung open its doors on its opening night.