... careless talk the germs of the idea destined to change four lives, was born. Within a month, Vanessa had closed her house in Chelsea she had only kept it open for John's leaves re-evacuated Patrick from the west country to here, Barbara had given up her two ...

... black sombreros the Chelsea boys affect, thereby increasing that atmosphere of exotic vice and devilry attached to the Arts anyway. Yet if decent people had but the courage to look twice they 'd prob ably find under those wicked Chelsea hats the roundest ...

... if the word saucy had never been hurled at the stockbroking racket by rumpled blondes. They looked in fact like a gang of Chelsea Bohemians on the razzle. No offence. Gamble How any of the bluenosed brethren raising a violent recent squawk against a mild ...

... electing Munnings, R.A., to the Presi dency, the Royal Academy fathers proclaim a new policy with regard to horses, one of the Chelsea boys was telling us. The public, he said, is sick, of being fooled every year regularly at Burlington House by hun dreds ...

... The old Crystal Palace was an absurd monument to Victorian megalomania, though we grant you the theatrical shud ders of the Chelsea art boys were too slavishly copied, perhaps, from the traditional shudders of the Montparnasse boys at the Eiffel Tower. Anyhow ...

... Teas, refined squeals, and painting flowers on glass. Sometimes Lucas agreed, sometimes denied it, and sometimes he drew an even more devastating portrait of Mr. Hovey's Marna, quite unfit for publication. Which only shows something or other. Trollery Inquiring ...

... friends though they didn't see each other often. He had been to the room in Chelsea and he was charming to Chloe and bought her a sheaf of pink roses. Chloe accepted him and the flowers gravely. He must be most awfully fond of you, Rockie, she had insisted ...