I was in the stage at which one is sick of the thing, tired of the bare idea of it--and Mr.Churchill's laboriously kind phrases made the matter no better.
"You know who Jenkins stands for ?" I asked.

I wanted to get away on the side issues.
"Oh, I guessed it was----" he answered.

They said that Mr.Churchill was an enthusiast for the school of painting of which Jenkins was the last exponent.

He began to ask questions about him.

Did he still paint?
Was he even alive?
"I once saw several of his pictures," he reflected.