I was showing great consideration, seeing I've no cause to bear Mallory any overwhelming goodwill." "I thought you had only met him once or twice ?" Rooke looked down at her with an odd expression.
"True--in the old days, only once.

At your flat.

But we've knocked up against each other several times since then.

And Mrs.Van Decken asked him to come and see her portrait." "You and he can have very little in common," observed Nan carelessly.
"Nothing"-- promptly--"except the links of art.

I've always been true in my art--if in nothing else.