He saw success then so plainly that for a moment it almost--but not quite--blotted out The Thing.

At other times that elusive something on the high-bred face of his model was a veritable will-o'-the-wisp, refusing to be caught and held, even in his eye.

The artist knew then that his picture would be hung with Anderson's and Fullam's.
But the portrait was, irrefutably, nearing completion, and it was to be exhibited the twentieth of the month.

Bertram knew these for facts..