"It must be unusual and it must be interesting.

Miss Bell must do something that no young lady has done before.
That much she must concede to the trade.

Granting that, the more artistically she does it the better." "I should agree to that compromise," said Elfrida eagerly.
"Anything to be left with a free hand." "The book should be copiously illustrated," continued Rattray, "and the illustrations should draw their interest from you personally." "I don't think I should mind that." Her imagination was busy at a bound with press criticisms, pirated American editions, newspaper paragraphs describing the color of her hair, letters from great magazines asking for contributions.

It leaped with a fierce joy at the picture of Janet reading these paragraphs, and knowing, whether she gave or withheld her own approval, that the world had pronounced in favor of Elfrida Bell.

She wrote the simple note with which she would send a copy to Kendal, and somewhere in the book there would be things which he would feel so exquisitely that--The cover should have a French design and be the palest yellow.