![]() ![]() Painting is the only art that can be practised without either talent or hard work. After messing about for years with such things as Women’s Suffrage and Higher Thought, and making many abortive attempts at literature, she had finally taken up with painting. ![]() Elizabeth’s mother had been an incapable, half-baked, vapouring, self-pitying woman who shirked all the normal duties of life on the strength of sensibilities which she did not possess. He was a tea-broker, and his fortunes fluctuated greatly, but he was by nature too optimistic to put money aside in prosperous phases. ![]() Her father had been less of a drunkard than his brother Tom, but he was a man of similar stamp. Elizabeth was just turned twenty-two, and was an orphan. ![]()
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