"No—I know by my own age."
"H'm!" said Lady Tasker; and again her needle danced....
Dorothy was explaining to Katie that Mollie was fair, about her own colour, but of course the hair never came out right in a photograph, when Lady Tasker suddenly began a further series of questions.
"Dorothy——"
"Yes?"
"Did she—develop—early?"
"Who—Amory? I don't know. Did she, Katie? Of course she was quite the cleverest girl at the McGrath."
"Ah!... What did she do at the McGrath?"
"Why, painted. You're awfully mysterious, auntie! It was soon after she left the McGrath that she painted 'Barrage'—you've heard of her feminist picture that made such a stir!"
"Ah, yes. Yes. I didn't see it, but I did hear about it. I don't know anything about art.—Had she any affair before she married young Pratt?"