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In fact, it was music that had first brought him and Dorian Gray

together-music and that indefinable attraction that Dorian seemed

to be able to exercise whenever he wished-and, indeed, exercised

often without being conscious of it. They had met at Lady

Berkshire's the night that Rubinstein played there, and after

that used to be always seen together at the opera and wherever

good music was going on. For eighteen months their intimacy

lasted. Campbell was always either at Selby Royal or in Grosvenor

Square. To him, as to many others, Dorian Gray was the type of

everything that is wonderful and fascinating in life. Whether or

not a quarrel had taken place between them no one ever knew. But

suddenly people remarked that they scarcely spoke when they met

and that Campbell seemed always to go away early from any party

at which Dorian Gray was present.