As editor of _The Woman's World_ Oscar had some money of his own to spend.

Though his salary was only some six pounds a week, it made him independent, and his editorial work gave him an excuse for not exhausting himself by writing.

For some years after marriage; in fact, till he lost his editorship, he wrote little and talked a great deal.
During this period we were often together.

He lunched with me once or twice a week and I began to know his method of work.

Everything came to him in the excitement of talk, epigrams, paradoxes and stories; and when people of great position or title were about him he generally managed to surpass himself: all social distinctions appealed to him intensely.