“Yes. I don’t think the eating of salt with tomato could make a man really superior, do you?”
“No; but it was the fact that he discovered salt.”
“But he didn’t. He was as ignorant as she till the voices whispered it.”
“Nevertheless, he caught the first sound.”
“Yes, of course,” said Rosalie thoughtfully.
Here Mr. Barringcourt laughed.
“You do not appreciate its true absurdity,” he said; “but that, maybe, is scarcely necessary. Now, that picture, or series of pictures, was painted by a woman, and sent to the man who had sent her the first.”
“But how about the voices?”
“Oh! she was no ordinary woman, by any means.”
“Was she quarrelling with the man?”