“This is it,” said Arabian, stopping before the big porch.

Sir Seymour stopped, too, hesitated, then said:

“I’ll say good night to you.”

Arabian shot a piercing and morose glance at him, moved his right hand as if about to extend it, dropped it and said:

“Well, but we have not spoken any more about my picture!”

“No.”

“Dick Garstin said you would decide.”

“Scarcely that—was it?”

“But I think it was.”

“Well, but it’s really not my affair.”