These silver-point drawings of Welby's were already famous.

In the preceding May there had been an exhibition of them at an artistic club.

At the top of the drawing was an inscription in a minute handwriting--'Sorrento: Christmas Day,' with the monogram 'A.W.' and a date three years old.
As Madame de Pastourelles perceived that his eyes had caught the inscription, she rather hastily withdrew the sketch and returned it to the portfolio.
'I watched him draw it,' she explained--'in a Sorrento garden.

My father and I were there for the winter.

Mr.Welby was in a villa near ours, and I used to watch him at work.' It seemed to Fenwick that her tone had grown rather hurried and reserved, as though she regretted the impulse which had made her show him the drawing.