May Sinclair was the pseudonym of Mary Amelia St Clair (1863-1946), an English novelist, poet, philosopher, translator, critic, and active suffragist. She was both popular and extremely prolific, writing 23 novels, 39 short stories and several collections of poetry throughout the late 19th and early 20th centuries. As a critic she promoted the work of Ezra Pound and the Imagist poets, and the novelist Dorothy Richardson, among others. She also wrote works of philosophy and was involved in the key issues of her day, writing pamphlets for the suffrage movement, propogating psycho-analytic thought, and she visited Belgium as part of an ambulance unit at the start of WWI. This novella first appeared in Everybody's Magazine in September 1907 and is reprinted from the first book edition published by Harpers in 1908 with 8 illustrations by John Wolcott Adams (1874-1925).