EUGENIA, my dear, I don't like to see you putting yourself forward so much at your age. Of _course_ I knew as well as you did that it wasn't JAMES THE FIRST that MONMOUTH rebelled against, though I'm not in the school-room. It's not at all pretty of you to correct your mother in that ostentatious manner, and don't let it occur again. There, you needn't say another word. We'll just pop in here for a minute, and then we must drive on somewhere else. I wish I could see you taking more interest in Art, EUGENIA. I thought you would enjoy being taken out like this!... Well, yes, I think we will have _just_ a cup.... Good-bye--thank you _so_ much--quite _the_ pictures of the year. Such a treat--oh, not at all--I _never_ flatter.... By the way, EUGENIA, _did_ we go up and see his pictures? I _thought_ not. I was dying for a cup of tea, and so,--and then, meeting Mr. HOLLAND PARK in the hall like that, I naturally congratulated him. Oh, nonsense--we _can't_ go back _now_--we shall see them some time, I daresay. I wish I could get CULLENDER to send me up some of that pretty pinky-coloured cake for my afternoons--it was really _quite_ nice. If I had only thought of it, I would have asked Mr. PARK how it was made. And _what_ becoming caps those maids had on! Models, no doubt. Drive as fast as you can, CHANDLER, it's getting so late. Quite the other side of London--the _poor_ horses, and on _Sunday_, too!--but it's a little education for _you_, my dear ... Look at the carriages--such grand ones, too, most of them; but I've always heard he's a man of extraordinary talent ... Mrs. and Miss JABBERLY JONES.... How do you _do_?... Quite a distinguished gathering, wasn't it, EUGENIA? So pleasant coming across dear Lady HIGHSNIFF like that. Your father and I met her in the Riviera, you know. She knew me directly I introduced myself. That's one thing about Art, it _does_ bring you into the very _best_ society. No, I can't say I cared much about his pictures this year--portraits are so very uninteresting, you know--they tell you nothing, unless you happen to know the people, and _then_ you never recognise them. I thought all his were dreadful. Oh, I know I said I should expect to see them all hung on the line--but what of _that_? One can't be perfectly candid in the world, my dear, much as one would wish to be. _What_ is that you're saying? "On the Hanging Committee this year?" How can you possibly _know_? "You heard him say so?" Then you ought to have stopped me, instead of standing there like a shy school-girl. Not that he would think I meant anything by a remark like that--why _should_ he? I'm sure I _tried_ to say everything that was pleasant!