I wonder how Mr.Wetmore can keep from laughing in our faces.

I know he does behind our backs." Mrs.Leighton's mind wandered back to another point.

"Then if he says Mr.Beaton can't paint, I presume he doesn't respect him very much." "Oh, he never said he couldn't paint.

But I know he thinks so.

He says he's an excellent critic." "Alma," her mother said, with the effect of breaking off, "what do you suppose is the reason he hasn't been near us ?" "Why, I don't know, mamma, except that it would have been natural for another person to come, and he's an artist at least, artist enough for that." "That doesn't account for it altogether.