It _did_ give one an idea.

But of course you know every stone in it by now!" "I'm afraid I've not seen it," Elfrida confessed gravely.
"I know it's shocking of me." "You haven't visited the Tower! Doesn't that show how benumbing opportunity is to the energies! Now I dare say that I," Miss Kimpsey went on with gratification, "coming over with a party of tourists from our State, all bound to get London and the cathedral towns and the lakes and Scotland and Paris and Switzerland into the summer vacation--I presume I may have seen more of the London sights than you have, Miss Bell." As Miss Kimpsey spoke she realized that she had had no intention of calling Elfrida "Miss Bell" when she saw her again, and wondered why she did it.

"But you ought to be fond of sight-seeing, too," she added, "with your artistic nature." Elfrida seemed to restrain a smile.

"I don't know that I am," she said.

"I'm sorry that you didn't leave my mother so well as she ought to be.