'Starvation and exhaustion'-- the doctor said." Marion Vincent paused.
"It's just like any other story of the kind--isn't it ?" Her smile turned on Diana.

"The charitable societies and missions send them out by scores in their appeals.

But somehow as he told it just now, down-stairs, in that glaring hall, with the champagne going round--it seemed intolerable." "And you mean also"-- said Diana, slowly--"that a man with that history can't know or care very much about the Empire ?" "Our minds are all picture-books," said the woman beside her, in a low, dreamy voice: "it depends upon what the pictures are.

To you the words 'England'-- and the 'Empire'-- represent one set of pictures--all bright and magnificent--like the Christmas Bazaar.

To John Barton and me"-- she smiled--"they represent another.