“Most likely theyll remain so. You all seem to stick to the little pictures tremendously. Why dont you go in for high art? There’s a big picture of Adam and Eve! Why dont you paint that?”
“Will you soon be leaving town?” she replied, looking steadily at her work, and declining to discuss Adam and Eve, who were depicted naked. Receiving no reply, she looked round, and saw Marmaduke leaving the room with the woman in the black silk dress.
“Who is that girl?” said Susanna, as they went out.
“That’s Lady Constance, whom I was to have married.”
“I guessed as much when I saw you talking to her. She is a true English lady, heaven bless her! I took the liberty of looking at her painting; and she stared at me as if I had bitten her.”
“She is a little fool.”
“She will not be such a little fool as to try to snub me again, I think. Bob: did you get my letter?”
“Of course I got it, or I shouldnt be here.”
“Well?”
“Well, I dont believe a word of it.”