It was certainly amusing at first to do the real thing--it was amusing to do Major Monarch's trousers.

They WERE the real thing, even if he did come out colossal.

It was amusing to do his wife's back hair--it was so mathematically neat--and the particular "smart" tension of her tight stays.

She lent herself especially to positions in which the face was somewhat averted or blurred, she abounded in ladylike back views and PROFILS PERDUS.

When she stood erect she took naturally one of the attitudes in which court-painters represent queens and princesses; so that I found myself wondering whether, to draw out this accomplishment, I couldn't get the editor of the CHEAPSIDE to publish a really royal romance, "A Tale of Buckingham Palace." Sometimes however the real thing and the make-believe came into contact; by which I mean that Miss Churm, keeping an appointment or coming to make one on days when I had much work in hand, encountered her invidious rivals.