she employed the same tailor as her husband. The couple had an
indefinable air of prosperous thrift--they evidently got a good
deal of luxury for their money. If I was to be one of their
luxuries it would behove me to consider my terms.

"Ah Claude Rivet recommended me?" I echoed and I added that it was
very kind of him, though I could reflect that, as he only painted
landscape, this wasn't a sacrifice.

The lady looked very hard at the gentleman, and the gentleman
looked round the room. Then staring at the floor a moment and
stroking his moustache, he rested his pleasant eyes on me with the
remark: "He said you were the right one."

"I try to be, when people want to sit."

"Yes, we should like to," said the lady anxiously.

"Do you mean together?"

My visitors exchanged a glance. "If you could do anything with ME
I suppose it would be double," the gentleman stammered.

"Oh yes, there's naturally a higher charge for two figures than for
one."

"We should like to make it pay," the husband confessed.

"That's very good of you," I returned, appreciating so unwonted a
sympathy--for I supposed he meant pay the artist.