Summary of the master artist
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The tale begins with Overt arriving at Summersoft, an old country house near London, to find, to his delight, that St. George, whose early works played an important part in forming Overt as a novelist, is a member of the party. Before meeting St. George and within minutes after meeting Mrs. St. George, Overt determines that the cause of the decline of St. George’s work is without doubt Mrs. St. George. She is, in his opinion, more suitable a wife for a keeper of books than for a literary master.
St. George joins the party but is preoccupied with the beautiful young Marian Fancourt, who has recently arrived in England from India and is very fond of literature and writers. From Marian, Overt learns all that he can about St. George. He tells her that if he were to be brought together with his idol he would be prostrate.
Prostrate is what Overt is when St. George expresses admiration for his work and special esteem for Overt’s latest novel, Ginistrella. St. George advises Overt to learn from the example of the failure of his later works and not let his old age become a “deplorable illustration of the worship of false gods.” The false gods are, in St. George’s view, all that is associated with having an active social life, “the idols of the market—