Excerpt from The Great Adventure: A Comedy in Four Acts Ilam Carve. Aged 45. One of the best known painters in Europe. Like all first-class artists, he combines marked and subtle personal distinction with boyishness and impulsiveness. All his gestures are invariably distinguished, but his demeanour varies from the very dignified to the childlike. An egoist, of course, but a persuasive one. Charming in manner; but sometimes fretful. For everything...