And this portrait is bound to be one or the other from the very nature of the thing." "I-is it ?" Billy's voice was a little faint.
"Yes.

First, because of who the sitter is, and secondly because of what she is.

She is, of course, the most famous subject I've had, and half the artistic world knows by this time that Marguerite Winthrop is being done by Henshaw.

You can see what it'll be--if I fail." "But you won't fail, Bertram!" The artist lifted his chin and threw back his shoulders.
"No, of course not; but--" He hesitated, frowned, and dropped himself into a chair.

His eyes studied the fire moodily.