"I never quite understood what brought up the subject, but Julia once referred to a picture." Ida laughed softly.
"I'm afraid I wasn't very tactful, and I shouldn't be astonished if your people still regard me as a partly-civilized Colonial.

Anyway, there was a picture--a rather striking one.

Do you remember Arabella's' making a sketch of you with the ax ?" "I certainly do.

She wasn't complimentary in some of her remarks.

She called me wooden.