8/28 But when the portrait goes down to posterity as a famous picture, it will figure in the catalogue of the National Gallery as 'The Duchess, the Mirror, and the Macaw.'" "Bravo!" said the duchess, delighted. "You shall paint it, Dal, in time for next year's Academy, and we will all go and see it." And he did. And when they saw it they said: "Ah, of course! There it is; just as we saw it under the cedar at Overdene." "Here comes Simmons with something on a salver," exclaimed the duchess. Can't you explain to Simmons how it's done? |