Gladys (piqued): “Of the three things you have named, ‘whatnot’ displeases me least.”
The severe old person smiled.
Two innocents abroad, one being likewise artless
This sketch shall be brought to a close with a story of two innocents abroad, one of them having been the girl who goes in for art.
They were evidently trippers—wedding-trippers. This is precisely what happened. They were standing before a world-famed picture in a world-famed gallery. I, standing albeit at some distance from them, seemed to myself to be in fullest evidence; but perhaps I was not. There were no other persons in the room. The girl said—
“You should not say of a portrait, dear, that it looks as if you could walk round it. It sounds all right, but it’s the wrong thing to say.”
To which he, smiling—
“Who told you so?”
“Reynolds.”