Perhaps Miss Sherwood had been very subtly appointing him her ambassador.

She was clever enough for that.
"Stop declaiming those self-written press notices of your unapproachable superiority," Larry interrupted.

"If you use your breath up like that you'll drown on dry land.

Besides, I just heard something better than this mere articulated air of yours.

Better because from a person in her senses." "Heard it from whom ?" "Miss Sherwood." "Miss Sherwood! What did she say ?" "That you were a really great painter." "Huh!" snorted Hunt.