“You witch!” His admiring eyes still lingered on her face. “Billy, I'm going to paint you sometime in just that pose. You're adorable!”

“Pooh! Just another face of a girl,” teased the adorable one.

Bertram gave a sudden exclamation.

“There! And I haven't told you, yet. Guess what my next commission is.”

“To paint a portrait?”

“Yes.”

“Can't. Who is it?”

“J. G. Winthrop's daughter.”

“Not the J. G. Winthrop?”

“The same.”