"But you admire him?"
"Why do you think so?"
"Because you allow his picture to hang on your wall."
"You forget that my father would naturally govern such matters."
"I should not imagine that your father would elect to give honour to a man of Tolstoi's views."
"My father greatly admires the artist's work."
"But not this one. You are quite right, Mr. Leicester," said Mr. Castlemaine, who had overheard their conversation. "I am not an admirer of this Russian's revolutionary ideas. My daughter and I had quite an argument about this picture."
"And Miss Castlemaine had the best of it."
"What man was ever equal to a woman in argument?" said Mr. Castlemaine good-humouredly. "Yes, what were you saying, Mr. Lowry?"
"Why do you admire him?" asked Radford Leicester, turning to Olive.