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The banging of his door, the locking of it, annoyed Vernon, yet interested him but little. One's acquaintances have such queer notions of humour. He had the excuse -- and by good luck the rope -- to explore his celebrated roofs. Mimi was more agitated than he, so he dismissed her for the day with many compliments and a bunch of roses, and spent what was left of the light in painting in a background to the sketch of Betty -- the warren as his sketch-book helped him to remember it. Perhaps he and she would go there together some day.
He looked with extreme content at the picture on the easel.