The whole difficulty of art consists in losing your own personality, so to speak, and finding it again transformed, and it is a difficulty which Miss Bretherton has never even understood.
'After this impression of spontaneity and natural force, I think what struck me most was the physical effect London has already exercised upon her in six weeks.

She looks superbly sound and healthy; she is tall and fully developed, and her colour, for all its delicacy, is pure and glowing.

But, after all, she was born in a languid tropical climate, and it is the nervous strain, the rush, the incessant occupation of London which seem to be telling upon her.

She gave me two or three times a painful impression of fatigue on Friday--fatigue and something like depression.

After twenty minutes' talk she threw herself back against the iron pillar behind her, her White Lady's hood framing a face so pale and drooping that we all got up to go, feeling that it was cruelty to keep her up a minute longer.