'I can't imagine anyone but Royalty enjoying these pictures,' said
Edith.
'They don't go to see pictures; they go to view exhibits,' Aylmer answered.
Declaring they had 'Academy headache' before they had been through the second room, they sat down and watched the people.
One sees people there that are to be seen nowhere else. An extraordinary large number of clergymen, a peculiar kind of provincial, and strange Londoners, almost impossible to place, in surprising clothes.
Then they gave it up, and Aylmer took them out to lunch at a club almost as huge and noisy and as miscellaneous as the Academy itself. However, they thoroughly enjoyed themselves.
Edith and Bruce were to take up their abode in their little country house at Westgate next day.
CHAPTER XXV
At Westgate
'I've got to go up to town on special business,' said Bruce, one afternoon, after receiving a telegram which he had rather ostentatiously left about, hoping he would be questioned on the subject. It had, however, been persistently disregarded.
'Oh, have you?'