"Believe me, I do appreciate this opportunity I shall do my best to express my appreciation here"-- he indicated the canvas on the easel.
When his sitter was posed to his liking, and the artist, with a few bold, sweeping, strokes of the charcoal had roughed out his subject on the canvas, and was bending over his color-box--he said, casually, to put her at ease, "You came alone this afternoon, did you ?" "Oh, no, indeed! I brought Louise with me.

I shall always bring her, or some one.

One cannot be too careful, you know," she added with simulated artlessness.
The painter, studying her face, replied mechanically "No indeed." As he turned back to his canvas, Mrs.Taine continued, "I left her in the house, with a box of chocolates and a novel.

I felt that you would rather we were alone." "Please don't look down," said the artist.

"I want your eyes about here"-- he indicated a picture on the wall, a little back and to the left of where he stood at the easel.
After this, there was silence in the studio, for a little while.