14/16 Kendal bad introduced him to her, in a brief encounter at the Salon, and she remembered the appreciativeness of the glance that accompanied the stout middle-aged English gentleman's bow. Kendal had told her then that Mr.Curtis was the editor of the _Consul_. And it might make the faintest shadow of a difference--but no, "The Editor" was more dignified, more impersonal; her article should go in upon its own merits, absolutely upon its own merits; and so she wrote. The fog had climbed up to her, and the candle showed it clinging to the corners of the room. The water in the samovar was hissing. |