And Pauline Lister, just after it had happened, was reported to have said, with a shrug of her pretty shoulders: "Schemes of colour are all very well.

But he scraped my pearls off the canvas because some one who came in hummed a tune while looking at the picture.

I would be obliged if people who walk around the studio while I am being painted will in future refrain from humming tunes.

I don't want him to scoop off my topazes and call for my emeralds.

Also I feel like offering a reward for the discovery of that tune.