Complete and unabridged, with 55 full-page plates by Edward William Cooke, Édouard Vuillard and Walter Sickert. Nanda Brookenham comes downstairs — she is old enough now to sit in her mother's drawing room, where the talk is not meant for her, and the talk is what the room is for. James settled in England and took British nationality at the last; this 1899 novel is told almost entirely in dialogue, like a play with the stage directions removed, and what is never said aloud is the whole plot. Fifty-five plates by painters including James Tissot and John Lavery follow the same drawing-room rituals of calls, dinners and quiet asides that James turns into dialogue.