She smiled.
“I just thought how lucky I would be if she bought one and gave me perhaps one pound for it so that I could buy you all a present.”
“Ten pounds for each!” Chloe exclaimed. “It seems an unbelievable amount for those scrawls you have been doing ever since I can remember.”
“You used to make us laugh with your drawings when we were children,” Thais remarked. “It seems funny you should make the smart people in London laugh at them now.”
“It seems funny to me too,” Anthea agreed. “But I had better draw everything I can while it is all fresh in my mind. It would be mortifying if Mrs. Humphrey should return anything I sent her.”
“I asked you to tell us about the ones you have sold,” Thais enquired again.
“There is no need for me to do that. You will see them. Mrs. Humphrey has pr
