"I am sending you a few lines, because I think you will like to know I have seen your dear pa
twice. First, he called on Saturday, and asked me to go with him to look at his picture at
Burlington House; but, as Saturday is always the busiest day of the week with me, as I dare say
you remember, I couldn't go then, and so I told him. He said I was to study my own convenience,
being as considerate as he ever was, dear Miss Angel, and as nice, and good-tempered. Well,
I told him I could go on Tuesday, and on Tuesday he fetched me in a cab, and we drove off together.
One of my lodgers had told me as how your pa's picture is a great deal thought of by them who
understand such things, and that every one is talking of it, so you may imagine I was a bit
curious to see it, but I wasn't prepared for the fuss folks made about it. There was a crowd of
people around the picture, gang at it with all their eyes, and saying such flattering things