More and more, as the intimacy grew, he deserted his uptown haunts and stuck to the attic studio above the rooms where, in the dawning days of prosperity, he had installed Peter Quick Banta in the effete and scandalous luxury of two rooms, a bath, and a gas stove.

But how"she turned the lovely and puzzled inquiry of her eyes upon the symbolist"how did you know?" "Artistic intuition," said Peter Quick Banta with profound complacency.