"Aren't you tremendously pleased?" he said.
"Do you know anything about this?" asked Lucy.
"How?"
"I mean, did you recommend us to him?"
"Not I. This letter is simply the reward of well-earned fame."
"Thank you, Mr. Jermyn; I really think you must be right. Do you know Sidney Darrell?"
"I have met him. But he is a great swell, you know, Miss Lucy, and he is almost always abroad."
"Yes," put in Gertrude; "his exquisite Venetian pictures!"
"Oh, Darrell is a clever fellow. Too fond of the French school, perhaps, for my taste. And the curious thing is, that, though his work is every bit as solid as it is brilliant, there is something rather sensational about his reputation."