Irish _Judy_, a charmingly pretty busybody, outwardly just like Miss IRIS HOEY, comes to _Peter Keppel's_ studio and hears that this casual youth has got into a deplorable habit of putting off his marriage with her friend _Milly_. She (_Judy_) will see to that! She assumes the _role_ of a notorious Chelsea model, whom proper _Peter_ has never seen. _Peter_ knocks his head on the mantelpiece, just where a shrapnel splinter had hit him, and is persuaded that she, _Judy McCarthy_, affecting to be _Trixie O'Farrel_, is his wife. It all seems very horrible to him, but, shell-shock or no shell-shock, he sets to work to paint her portrait in a business-like way, and at the end of four hours it doesn't seem at all horrible. And by the time it is explained that it was all a joke (some people do have such a nice sense of humour) he is all for rushing off to the registry-office, _Judy_ agreeing. Not that _Judy_ is a minx. She did her level best to make two people who obviously didn't love one another fulfil their engagement, instead of, like a sensible woman, accepting the inevitable, which was, as it happens, so congenial to her. What puzzled me was _Peter's_ indignation with poor _Milly_ when he found that she really didn't love him (but, on the contrary, a bounder called _Crauford_), yet couldn't bear to cause him unhappiness, and was sacrificing herself for him. As that was his attitude precisely, I suppose he felt annoyed by this lack of originality. If we men are like that, it wasn't nice of Mr. DENNY to give us away. At any rate I am sure Mr. DONALD CALTHROP didn't believe in _Peter_ all the time. When he did he was very good indeed. When he didn't he was horrid. Did Miss IRIS HOEY believe in _Judy_? I am not so sure. I suspect not. Did I believe in either? I did not. I was a little surprised that Miss JOAN VIVIAN-REES should so overplay her _Trixie_. Her work is certainly in general not like that, and I conjecture the influence of some baleful autocrat of a producer. It seemed to me that Miss MILDRED EVELYN'S _Milly_ was, all things considered, a capable and consistent study of a desperately unsympathetic character, a more difficult and creditable feat than is commonly supposed. T. "WILD GEESE." [Illustration: _Mr. JACK BUCHANAN_ (_Hon. Bill Malcolm_). "WHAT'S THE IDEA? ARE YOU BY ANY CHANCE TRYING TO GIVE ME THE COLD SHOULDER?" _Miss PHYLLIS MONKMAN_ (_Violet Braid_). "NO. I JUST KEEP ON DOING THIS FOR THE LOOK OF THE THING."]