COMMENT. Mr. Johnson has here produced a satirical character study,
wherein Mary Haviland Norton well nigh stands in place of the story;
but in playing up the visit of Hurrell Oaks he has secured narrative
interest. That a mere visit should have loomed as an event, and that
the loss of it should have proved so disappointing becomes the test
of Miss Haviland’s character. Building a story upon so negative an
incident is a feat worthy of Henry James--or Mary Haviland Norton.