Still, your reputation! You've been a good deal in the papers, haven't you ?" Miss King, curiously enough, seemed pleased at this account of her reputation.

It is gratifying to a novelist to be famous, and even notoriety is pleasant.

She felt that, having braved the censure of Lady Hawkesby, she could afford to despise the morality of the people of Ballymoy.
"The Major ?" she said.

"You've mentioned him once or twice.

What sort of man is he?
Does my work shock him ?" "I expect it does," said Meldon.