You have no taste for pictures, only for painters, I suppose, said Lady Kew.
I was not looking at the picture, said Ethel, still with a smile, but at the little green ticket in the corner
Sold, said Lady Kew. Of course it is sold; all Mr. Hunts pictures are sold. There is not one of them here on which you wont see the green ticket. He is a most admirable artist. I dont know whether his comedy or tragedy are the most excellent
I think, grandmamma, Ethel said, we young ladies in the world, when we are exhibiting, ought to have little green tickets pinned on our backs, with Sold written on them; it would prevent trouble and any future haggling, you know. Then at the end of the season the owner would come to carry us home