She passed lightly over her acquaintanceship with Phillips.

He would regard it as highly undesirable, she told herself, and it would trouble him.

He was reading her articles in the _Sunday Post_, as also her Letters from Clorinda: and of the two preferred the latter as being less subversive of law and order.

Also he did not like seeing her photograph each week, displayed across two columns with her name beneath in one inch type.

He supposed he was old- fashioned.