That picture must have been drawn aside several times while we were in this room.

Yet we failed to notice it." "That was from not looking high enough.

High and low, Mr.Gryce! What goes on at the level of the eye is apparent to every one." The smile with which he acknowledged this parting shot and prepared to escort her to the door had less of irony than sadness in it.

Was he beginning to realize that years tell even on the most sagacious, and that neither high places nor low would have escaped his attention a dozen years before?
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