Answer. On two Sundays in the year—the consecutive sabbaths devoted to the exhibition of proposed academy pictures by "Outsiders," and "A.'s," and "R.A.'s."
Q. Do you haunt the abodes of artists at other times?
A. Never; or, to cover all possibilities, hardly ever.
Q. Then you are not a lover of paintings for their own sake?
A. Certainly not; on the contrary, I am, as a rule, a better judge of frames than canvases.
Q. Then why do you go to St. John's Wood, Chelsea and West Kensington?
A. To see and be seen.
Q. Is it necessary to know the artist whose pictures are "on view"?
A. Certainly not. You can usually single him out by the absence of an overcoat, and can generally spot his wife and daughter by the non-appearance of promenading head-gear.
Q. What have you to do when you have discovered your involuntary host and hostess?