At each encounter she made an effort to appear unconcerned, and suffered immediately afterward from a suspicion that the effort had defeated its own object, as such efforts often do.
Conolly had something to say about most of the pictures: generally an unanswerable objection to some historical or technical inaccuracy, which sometimes convinced her, and always impressed her with a confiding sense of ignorance in herself and infallible judgment in him.
"I think we have done enough for one day," she said at last.

"The watercolors and the sculpture must wait until next time." "We had better watch for a vacant seat.

You must be tired." "I am, a little.

I think I should like to sit in some other room.

Mrs.
Leith Fairfax is over there with Mr.Douglas--a gentleman whom I know and would rather not meet just now.