A. That First Affair and Other Sketches In the middle piece, «The Portraits,» an old thwarted love affair between two (now elderly) people is reprised by their grandchildren and finally consummated — with supernatural help effected through the mysterious mechanism of two portraits on either side of the Atlantic Mitchell, J. New York: Charles Scribner’s Sons, 1896. First edition. Octavo, pp. [1-4] [i-vi] vii-viii [1-2] 3-177 [178-180: blank]. Original green pictorial cloth, front panel stamped in ivory and gold, spine…