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_The Rose of Raby_ proved to be fiction; but it was at least easier to hold than Tanner's Constitutional History of England. It was, moreover, the almost-respectable form of historical fiction which is merely history-with-conversation, so to speak. An imaginative biography rather than an imagined story. Evelyn Payne-Ellis, whoever she might be, had provided portraits and a family tree, and had made no attempt, it seemed, to what he and his cousin Laura used to call in their childhood 'write forsoothly'. There was no 'by our Ladys', no 'nathelesses' or 'varlets'.
It was an honest affair according to its lights.