Complete and unabridged, with 41 full-page plates by Christopher Williams, Marianne North and John Kelt Edwards. Two Englishmen — a lord and his cousin — come to Newport for the summer and are entertained by two American sisters; a year later the sisters come to London and discover what the lord's mother thinks of the arrangement. James settled in England and took British nationality at the last; this 1878 novella was read in England as an insult and in America as a betrayal, which suggests he had it about right. Forty-one plates by painters including Childe Hassam and Edmund Blair Leighton follow the story across two countries, from dinner parties and tea tables to a north east headland and early morning calm.