A STORY WITH TWO HEROINES 363 CHAPTER XXIII THE RENASCENCE OF WONDER IN RELIGION 372 CHAPTER XXIV THE RENASCENCE OF WONDER IN HUMOUR 382 CHAPTER XXV GORGIOS AND ROMANIES 389 CHAPTER XXVI ‘THE COMING OF LOVE’ 393 CHAPTER XXVIII “CHRISTMAS AT THE ‘MERMAID’” 422 CHAPTER XXVIII CONCLUSION 442 ILLUSTRATIONS Theodore Watts-Dunton. From a painting by Miss H. Frontispiece B. Norris Reverie. Crayon by D. G. Rossetti at ‘The Pines’ 1 The Ouse at Houghton Mill, Hunts. (From a Water 28 Colour by Fraser at ‘The Pines.’) ‘The Thicket,’ St. Ives. (From a Water Colour by 32 Fraser at ‘The Pines.’) Slepe Hall: Cromwell’s Supposed Residence at St. 36 Ives. (From an Oil Painting at ‘The Pines.’) ‘Evening Dreams with the Poets.’ (From an Oil 68 Painting at ‘The Pines.’) A Corner in ‘The Pines,’ showing the Painted and 92 Carved Cabinet A Letter Box on the Broads. (From an Oil Painting 114 at ‘The Pines.’) Pandora. Crayon by D. G. Rossetti at ‘The Pines’ 140 ‘The Green Dining Room,’ 16 Cheyne Walk. (From a 161 Painting by Dunn, at ‘The Pines.’) One of the Carved Mirrors at ‘The Pines,’ 162 decorated with Dunn’s copy of the lost Rossetti Frescoes at the Oxford Union Kelmscott Manor. (From a Water Colour by Miss May 170 Morris.) ‘The Pines.’ (From a Drawing by Herbert Railton.) 262 A Corner in ‘The Pines,’ showing the Lacquer 266 Cabinet Summer at ‘The Pines’—I 268 A Corner in ‘The Pines,’ showing the Chinese Divan 270 described in ‘Aylwin’ Summer at ‘The Pines’—II 274 ‘Picture for a Story.’ (Face and Instrument 276 designed by D. G. Rossetti, background by Dunn.) Ogwen and the Glyders from Carnedd Dafydd 312 Moel Siabod and the River Lledr 314 Snowdon and Glaslyn 318 Henry Aylwin and Winifred under the Cliff. (From 342 an Oil Painting at ‘The Pines.’) Sinfi Lovell and Pharaoh. (From a Painting at 364 ‘The Pines.’) ‘John the Pilgrim.’ (By Arthur Hacker, A.R.A.) 416 NATURA BENIGNA