Granting that,
the more artistically she does it the better."
"I should agree to that compromise," said Elfrida eagerly.
"Anything to be left with a free hand."
"The book should be copiously illustrated," continued
Rattray, "and the illustrations should draw their interest
from you personally."
"I don't think I should mind that."
Her imagination was busy at a bound with press criticisms,
pirated American editions, newspaper paragraphs describing
the color of her hair, letters from great magazines asking
for contributions. It leaped with a fierce joy at the
picture of Janet reading these paragraphs, and knowing,
whether she gave or withheld her own approval, that the
world had pronounced in favor of Elfrida Bell. She wrote
the simple note with which she would send a copy to
Kendal, and somewhere in the book there would be things
which he would feel so exquisitely that--The cover should
have a French design and be the palest yellow. There was
a moment's silence while she thought of these things,
her knee clasped in her hands, her eyes blindly searching
the dull red squares of the Llassa prayer-carpet.
"Rattray," said Golightly, with a suddenness that made
both the others look up expectantly, "could Miss Bell do
her present work for the _Age_ anywhere?"
"Just now I think it's mostly book reviews--isn't it?--and
comments on odds and ends in the papers of interest to
ladies.
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