"I'd like you to try it, anyway." As the summer advanced, Bertram thought sometimes that he could see a slight improvement in his injured arm; but he tried not to think too much about this.

He had thought the same thing before, only to be disappointed in the end.

Besides, he was undeniably interested just now in seeing if he _could_ paint with his left hand.

Billy was so sure, and she had said that she would be prouder than ever of him, if he could--and he would like to make Billy proud! Then, too, there was the baby--he had no idea a baby could be so interesting to paint.

He was not sure but that he was going to like to paint babies even better than he had liked to paint his "Face of a Girl" that had brought him his first fame.
In September the family returned to the Strata.