2 2                              Miriam]. Benkovitz

in the beginning; more beautiful in the end. (Nancy Cunard, GM;
Meinorics of George Moore)

And in 1925, he assured her that the only hours which had any
pleasure in them were those spent with her, that "life would be a
 

George IVIoorc and Nanc\' (Ainartl at Saiiar\
in the winter of 1921-22.

dreary thing" without her. Long before Moore wrote either of
those letters, Maud Burke had married Sir Bache Cunard, member
of the powerful shipping family, and Moore had become a fre¬
quent visitor in the Cunard home, Nevill Holt, in Leicestershire.
Their relationship, Maud's and George Moore's, had settled into
a "spacious, comfortable, and leisurely" one.