Yet, subtly--after she had gone home--she felt the effort.

Either he or she had imperceptibly changed; she knew not which was guilty; but she knew.
Besides, she herself was now in universal demand--and in the furor of her popularity she had been, from the beginning, forced to choose among a very few with whom she personally felt herself at ease, and to whom she had become confidently accustomed.

Also, from the beginning, she had not found it necessary to sit undraped for many--a sculptor or two--Burleson and Gary Graves--Sam Ogilvy with his eternal mermaidens, Querida--nobody else.

The other engagements had been for costume or, at most, for head and shoulders.

Illustrators now clamoured for her in modish garments of the moment--in dinner gown, ball gown, afternoon, carriage, motor, walking, tennis, golf, riding costumes; poster artists made her pretty features popular; photographs of her in every style of indoor and outdoor garb decorated advertisements in the backs of monthly magazines.