Then when at last tea was over, he proposed, as the most delightful proceeding possible, that we should adjourn to the studio, and that I should sit and listen while he made a first attempt to play his 'cello--which, by the way, he calls, the 'Infant of Prague,' explaining to me that it is the nicest infant that ever was." "Oh, that confounded Infant!" exclaimed Dr.Dick.

"I have hated it from the first! But really, Mrs.West "-- he looked puzzled--"all this was no doubt enthusiasm misplaced.

But then Ronnie always is a perfect infant himself, where new toys are concerned.

You can hardly realise how much he has looked forward to showing you that 'cello.

His behaviour also proved a decided tendency to self-absorption; but there the artistic temperament comes in, which always creates a world of its own in which it dwells content, often at the expense of duties and obligations connected with outer surroundings.