Life and Death of Harriett Frean by May Sinclair

Towards spring Harriett showed signs of depression, and they took her to / the south of France and to Bordighera and Rome. In Rome she recovered. / Rome was one of those places you ought to see; she had always been / anxious to do the right thing. In the little Pension in the Via Babuino / she had a sense of her own importance and the importance of her father / and mother. They were Mr. and Mrs. Hilton Frean, and Miss Harriett / Frean, seeing Rome.

After their return in the summer he began to write his book, _The Social / Order_. There were things that had to be said; it did not much matter / who said them provided they were said plainly. He dreamed of a new / Social State, society governing itself without representatives. For a / long time they lived on the interest and excitement of the book, and / when it came out Harriett pasted all his reviews very neatly into / an album. He had the air of not taking them quite seriously; but he / subscribed to _The Spectator_, and sometimes an article appeared there / understood to have been written by Hilton Frean.