The romance, the novel, the drama are the picture of one.

The subject the novelist treats is the rise, the formation, the development, the climax and for the most part the decline of one.

And what is the honest lady doing on that side of the town ?" Mrs.Dyott was more pointed.

"She doesn't so much as FORM a relation." But Maud bore up.

"Doesn't it depend again on what you call a relation ?" "Oh," said Mrs.Dyott, "if a gentleman picks up her pocket-handkerchief--" "Ah even that's one," their friend laughed, "if she has thrown it to him.