_Alice's Performances_ When Alice was called, and when she stood up in the box, and, smiling indulgently at the doddering usher, kissed the book as if it had been a chubby nephew, a change came over the emotional atmosphere of the court, which felt a natural need to smile.

Alice was in all her best clothes, but it cannot be said that she looked the wife of a super-eminent painter.

In answer to a question she stated that before marrying Priam she was the widow of a builder in a small way of business, well known in Putney and also in Wandsworth.

This was obviously true.

She could have been nothing but the widow of a builder in a small way of business well known in Putney and also in Wandsworth.