Epigraph
“IN HIS LOOMING ABOUT THE ROOM HE HAD STOPPED DEAD BEFORE WATTS’S PICTURE ‘HOPE’ OVER THE MANTELPIECE”
From the painting by G. F. Watts, R.A.
(See p. 336)
Dedication
To
Em
Part I
“... and some do say of poppies that they be the tears of the moon shed in a land beyond the seas: and that they do bring forgetfulness and freedom from pain.” (From an old Irish Legend.)