"Mr.King told me not to look at it.

It has always been covered when I have been in the studio." Again, Mrs.Taine smiled, as though there was some reason, known only to herself and the painter, why he did not wish the girl to see the portrait.
"And do you come to the studio often--alone as you came to-day ?" she asked, still kindly, as though from her experience she was seeking to counsel the girl.

"I mean--have you been coming since the picture for which you posed was finished ?" The girl's white cheeks grew red with embarrassment and shame as she answered, falteringly, "Yes." "You poor child! Really, I must scold Aaron for this.

After my warning him, too, that people were talking about his intimacy with you in the mountains It is quite too bad of him! He will ruin himself, if he is not more careful." She seemed sincerely troubled over the situation.
"I--I do not understand, Mrs.Taine," faltered Sibyl.

"Do you mean that my--that Mr.King's friendship for me has harmed him?
That I--that it is wrong for me to come here ?" "Surely, Miss Andres, you must understand what I mean." "No, I--I do not know.