And he has been reading us the opening chapters, just to Miss Barker and me.

It is quite wonderful.

So painful, you know.

He does not spare the reader anything; he thinks it wrong to leave out anything--but so powerful!" "Is it the same Miss Barker whom I met at your house in the season, who denounced _The Idyll ?_" "Yes.

How she did cut it up! You see, she knows all about East London, and that sort of thing.