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22 the London Socialists. There's a movement afoot for the popularization of art. It is indirectly the work of Ruskin. After I came home I taught a year, just to send the message on."

Anne lifted her eyebrows.

"You have a new theory?"

"I have," he answered. "Moreover, I've got a commission, to design frescoes for a room in the City Hall."

"Here?" cried Anne eagerly. Then she corrected her manner.

"You have been very successful. I saw notices of your two Sâlon pictures. Why did the Art Review call you an impressionist?"

"It's a perfectly harmless term, as it doesn't mean anything."

"You always were something of an impressionist in temperament!"

Howard changed the subject abruptly. He had come to bespeak Miss Bradford's interest in a pupil of his, Miss Wistar, now at the Rembrandt Studios. Anne politely promised to call.