Produced by Chris Curnow, Mary Meehan and the Online Distributed Proofreading Team at http://www.pgdp.net (This file was produced from images generously made available by The Internet Archive) WOMAN AND ARTIST BY MAX O'RELL AUTHOR OF "JOHN BULL AND CO." "JOHN BULL AND HIS ISLAND" "JONATHAN AND HIS CONTINENT" ETC. [Illustration] LONDON FREDERICK WARNE & CO. AND NEW YORK [_All Rights Reserved_] I DEDICATE THIS VOLUME TO MY WIFE CONTENTS PAGE I. FRENCH AND ENGLISH HOMES 9 II. THE HOUSE IN ELM AVENUE 13 III. THE PORTRAIT 19 IV. DORA 38 V. THE DRAMATIC AUTHOR AND THE PATRON OF ARTS 60 VI. THE INVENTOR 83 VII. THE NEW HOUSE 94 VIII. THE HOUSE-WARMING 104 IX. THE CONFESSION 109 X. BELGRAVIA 125 XI. GENERAL SABAROFF 145 XII. THE HUSBAND, THE WIFE, AND THE OTHER 164 XIII. A CRUEL ORDEAL 177 XIV. EVA 209 XV. THE SEPARATION 217 XVI. PHILIP RETURNS TO THE FOLD 235 XVII. DORA'S STUDIO 246 XVIII. LORIMER'S PLOT 270 WOMAN AND ARTIST I FRENCH AND ENGLISH HOMES