If in the eyes of the world your relations to Mr.King are--are wrong, it is as bad as though it were actually true.

I felt that I must tell you, child, not alone for your own good but for the sake of Mr.King and his work--for the sake of his position in the world.

Frankly, if you continue to compromise him and his good name by coming like this to his studio, it will ruin him.

The world may not care particularly whether Mr.King keeps a mistress or not, but people will not countenance his open association with her, even under the pretext that she is a model." As she finished, Mrs.Taine looked at her watch.

"Dear me, I really must be going.