Only a mention." "Was it a portrait ?" "Yes--in a way." "What was it?
Just a girl ?" "Yes." "Who was she ?" "Oh, just a girl----" "Was she pretty ?" "Yes.

Shall we dance this next----" "No.

Was she a model ?" "She posed----" Geraldine, lips on the edge of her spread fan, regarded him curiously.
"That is a very romantic life, isn't it ?" she murmured.
"What ?" "Yours.

I don't know much about it; Kathleen took me to hear 'La Boheme'; and I found Murger's story in the library.

I have also read 'Trilby.' Did _you_--were you--was life like that when you studied in the Latin Quarter ?" He laughed.