“Mr. Canterton!”

“You like it?”

“Am I to paint this?”

“I hope so.”

“Let me pour out my humility.”

He laughed gently.

“Oh, you can do it!”

“Can I? And the old walls! I should not have thought the place was so old.”

“It isn’t. I bought my bricks. Some old cottages were being pulled down.”

“Thank God, sometimes, for money!”