They were holding hands in an attitude suggestive of a bas-relief.

Joan remembered them, having seen them on one or two occasions wandering in the King's Road, Chelsea; still maintaining, as far as the traffic would allow, the bas-relief suggestion; and generally surrounded by a crowd of children, ever hopeful that at the next corner they would stop and do something really interesting.

They belonged to a society whose object was to lure the London public by the force of example towards the adoption of the early Greek fashions and the simpler Greek attitudes.

A friend of Flossie's had thrown in her lot with them, but could never be induced to abandon her umbrella.

They also, as Joan told herself, were reformers.