as in evidence
in a place of honor, especially created for it, and Wetmore said, when
they sat down at dinner, "Well, Ludlow, all _this_ company can tell
where you got your hollyhocks." Cornelia turned the color of the
reddest in the picture, and Wetmore recognized her consciousness with
the added remark, "Oh, you'll be in all his imaginative pictures, now,
Mrs. Ludlow. That's the fate of the wife of an imaginative painter. But
you really must get him to keep you out of his portraits."

Charmian checked herself in a wild laugh, and sent Cornelia a look of
fond and proud intelligence, which Mrs. Rangeley tapped, as it were, on
its way up the length of the table. "O Mrs. Ludlow!" she entreated.
"What is it? I hope it isn't professional envy! Is he afraid of Mr.
Ludlow becoming too popular?"

Ludlow answered for his wife, "Mrs. Rangeley, that was worthy even of
you," and he boldly kissed his hand to her.

The dinner was remembered for several weeks as one of the pleasantest
people had ever been at, and it established Mrs. Maybough in such
social acceptance that she was asked to the first of the Westley
dinners, where swells prevailed, and where she was as null as any of
them. But although Charmian was apparently radiant the whole evening,
and would hardly let Cornelia go away at the end, she wanted her to
stay so and talk it over, she had a girl's perverseness in not
admitting the perfection of the occasion to Mrs. Maybough, when she
said, "Well, my dear, I hope your dinner was Bohemian enough for you."

"Bohemian!" she retorted. "It wasn't Bohemian at all. You oughtn't to
have taken the ladies away at coffee. They ought to have stayed and had
cigarettes with the gentlemen."

"My dear, you know that the mere smell of tobacco makes you sick!"

"No matter, I should--if I could only have seen Cornelia Ludlow
smoking--I should have been willing to _die_. And now--now, I'm afraid
she's going to be perfectly respectable!"

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