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 Wimble. He always has to have his little critical fling.

"The peak of the Jungfrau!" he grumbled. "Jungfrau indeed! It was Mont Blanc! It was very wonderfully and subtly Mont Blanc! But the Jungfrau—never!"

"Hermione," I said, "what do you think of the New Art?"

"It's wonderful!" she breathed, "just simply wonderful! So esoteric, and yet so simple! But there is one thing I am going to speak to Mrs. Voke Easeley about—one improvement I am going to suggest. His ears, you know—don't you think they are too large? Or too red, at least, for their size? They catch the eye too much they take away from the effect. Before he sings here again I will have Mrs. Easeley bob them off a little."