Kale looked at him in chagrin. Could it be that de Lesseps did not understand that it was a Rubens, and that Rubens was a painter?Or was it that he had failed to hear him say that it cost him ffty thousand dollars. Kale was accustomed to seeing people bob their heads and open their eyes when he said ffty thousand dollars;therefore,“Dont you like it?”he asked.
“Very much indeed,”replied de Lesseps,“but I have seen it before. I saw it in Rome just a week or so before you purchased it.”