Now we have found you; positively you are our prisoner." Lady Selina Vipont was one of the queens of London; she had with her that habit of command natural to such royalties.

Frank Vance was no tuft-hunter, but once under social influences, they had their effect on him, as on most men who are blest with noses in the air.

Those great ladies, it is true, never bought his pictures; but they gave him the position which induced others to buy them.

Vance loved his art; his art needed its career.

Its career was certainly brightened and quickened by the help of rank and fashion.
In short, Lady Selina triumphed, and the painter stepped back to Lionel.
"I must go to Richmond with these people.