JOSEPH PENNELL. Oh, yes, but the family have injuncted Heinemann from publishing the letters: Mr. Justice Kekewich will probably change his opinion when the weather gets warmer. It is only an interim injunction. CHARLES RICKETTS. A sort of Clapham Injunction. SIR WILLIAM RICHMOND, K.C.B., R.A. If I had known what a stupendous genius Dubedat was, I should have given him part of the 'New Bailey' to decorate. D. S. MACCOLL. Let us be thankful he's as dead as Bill Bailey. SIR CHARLES HOLROYD (_smoothing things over_). I think we ought to have an example for the Tate. (MACCOLL _winces_.) The Chantrey Bequest--(MACCOLL _winces again_)--might do something; and I must write to Lord Balcarres. The National Arts Collections Fund may have something over from the subscriptions to the Rokeby Velasquez; but I want to see what Colvin is going to choose for the British Museum. SIDNEY COLVIN. I think we might have this drawing; it stands on its legs. A most interesting fellow Dubedat. He reminds me of Con-- GEORGE MOORE. Not Stevenson, though _he_ had no talent whatever. My dear Mr. Colvin, have you ever read 'Vailima Letters'? I have read parts of them. SIDNEY COLVIN (_coldly_). Ah, really! Did you suffer very much? SIR HUGH P. LANE. Do you think, Mr. Gersaint, the artist's widow would give me one of the pictures for the Dublin Gallery? We have no money at all. _I have no money_, but all the artists are giving pictures: Sargent, Shannon, Lavery, Frank Dicksee; and Rodin is giving a plaster cast. GERSAINT. How charming and insinuating you are, Sir Hugh. We can make special reductions for the Dublin Gallery, but you can hardly expect charitable bequests from picture dealers. SIR HUGH P. LANE. Oh! but Dowdeswell, Agnew, Sulley, Wertheimer, P. and D. Colnaghi, and Humphry Ward are all giving me pictures. Now, look here, I'll buy these five drawings, and you can give me these two. I'll give you a Gainsborough drawing in exchange for them. It has a very good history. First it belonged to Ricketts, then to Rothenstein, then Wilson Steer, and then to the Carfax Gallery, and . . . then it came into my possession, and all that in three months. (_Bargain concluded_.) MR. PFFUNGST (_aside_). But is there any evidence that it belonged to Gainsborough? SIR HUGH P. LANE (_turning to a titled lady_). Oh, do come to tea next Saturday. I want to show you my new Titian which I _have just bought for_ 2100_l_. TITLED LADY. Sir Hugh, _can_ you tell me who Mrs. Dubedat is now? SIR HUGH P. LANE. Oh, yes. She married Dr. Schutzmacher, the specialist on bigamy only this morning. TITLED LADY. How interesting. I should like to meet her. Dresses divinely, I'm told. SIR HUGH P. LANE. She's coming to tea next Saturday; such good tea, too! TITLED LADY. That will be delightful. ST. JOHN HANKIN (_loftily_). Can you tell me whether this charmian artist is pronounced Dubedat or Dubedat?