CHAPTER I.The weekly bill.
Smith's Hotel, 10 Dovermarle Street.
Here we are in London again,--Francesca, Salemina, and I.Salemina is a philanthropist of the Boston philanthropists limited.

I am an artist.
Francesca is-- It is very difficult to label Francesca.

She is, at her present stage of development, just a nice girl; that is about all: the sense of humanity hasn't dawned upon her yet; she is even unaware that personal responsibility for the universe has come into vogue, and so she is happy.
Francesca is short of twenty years old, Salemina short of forty, I short of thirty.

Francesca is in love, Salemina never has been in love, I never shall be in love.

Francesca is rich, Salemina is well-to-do, I am poor.