D. C. (glancing round). Yes; how very clever they are.
Shopman. Yes; they are very amusing.
D. C. I suppose you have had heaps of People. What a pity Max cannot draw!
Shopman. Yes; it is a great pity.
D. C. (examines drawing; after a pause). But he can draw. Look at that one of Althorp.
Shopman (trying to look intelligent): Yes; that certainly is well drawn.
D. C. (pointing to photograph of Paris inserted in Mr. Claude Lowther’s caricature). And how extraordinary that is. It is like one of Muirhead Bone’s street scenes. He does street scenes, doesn’t he?
Shopman. Yes; or one of Mr. Joseph Pennell’s.
D. C. (after a pause). What a pity he never gets the likeness. That’s very bad of Arthur Balfour.
Shopman. Yes; it is a great pity. No; that’s not at all a good one of Mr. Balfour.