'She sits for the figure and attends on him when he is ill, she must
be his mistress. Since when I wonder?'

'How do you like it?' he asked.

'Very much. It is beautifully drawn, so natural and so original. How
did you think of that movement? That is just how a woman passes her
arms into her wrapper when she get out of her bath. How did you think
of it?'

'I don't know. She took the pose. I think the movement is all right.'

'Yes; it is a movement that happens every morning, yet no one thought
of it before. How did you think of it?'

'I don't know, I asked her to take some poses and it came like that. I
think it is good. I'm glad you like it.'

'It is very different from the stupid things we draw in the studio.'

'I told you that you'd do no good by going to France.' 'I learnt a
good deal there. Every one cannot learn by themselves as you did. Only
genius can do that.'

'Genius! A few little pictures ... I think I might have done something
if I had got the chance. I should have liked to have finished that
picture. It is a good beginning. I never did better.'

'Dearest, you will live to paint your picture. I want you to finish