"
She recollected it all afterwards--every word, every pause. But then, as
so frequently happens, knowledge aided her memory, and added significance
to every detail.
"Are you staying with the Mazerods?" he asked.
"Yes, I am being shown life. I am doing a season. To-night is part of my
education. To-morrow, I believe, we go to Hurlingham; the next day to a
charity bazaar, and so on. I believe I am getting on very well. Aunt Mary
is pleased with me. But I still stare about me, and show visible
disappointment when I am presented to a literary celebrity or some other
person of newspaper renown."
"Celebrities in the flesh _are_ disappointing."
"Not only that, but I find that many of them are just a little common.
Not quite what we in the country call gentlemen."
"Ah! Miss Glynde, you forget that Art rises superior to class
distinctions."
"Yes, but artists don't; and artists' wives don't rise at all. I think
you are to be congratulated. In your profession there are fewer persons
'superior to class distinction.
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