CHAPTER XXV. THE WIGMORE VENUS

The morning was so brilliantly fine; the populace popped to and fro in so active and cheery a manner; and everybody appeared to be so absolutely in the pink, that a casual observer of the city of New York would have said that it was one of those happy days. Yet Archie Moffam, as he turned out of the sun-bathed street into the ramshackle building on the third floor of which was the studio belonging to his artist friend, James B. Wheeler, was faintly oppressed with a sort of a kind of feeling that something was wrong. He would not have gone so far as to say that he had the pip--it was more a vague sense of discomfort. And, searching for first causes as he made his way upstairs, he came to the conclusion that the person responsible for this nebulous depression was his wife, Lucille. It seemed to Archie that at breakfast that morning Lucille's manner had been subtly rummy. Nothing you could put your finger on, still--rummy.

Musing thus, he reached the studio, and found the door open and the room empty. It had the air of a room whose owner has dashed in to fetch his golf-clubs and biffed off, after the casual fashion of the artist temperament, without bothering to close up behind him. And such, indeed, was the case. The studio had seen the last of J. B. Wheeler for that day: but Archie, not realising this and feeling that a chat with Mr. Wheeler, who was a light-hearted bird, was what he needed this morning, sat down to wait. After a few moments, his gaze, straying over the room, encountered a handsomely framed picture, and he went across to take a look at it.

1. What chapter are we on?
2. Is the day dreary?
3. In what city are the happy people?
4. Who turns in to the building?
5. Which floor does he go to?
6. Who lives there?
7. What does he do for a living?
8. Who did he hold accountable for his mental state?
9. And who's she?
10. When did he feel she was acting rummy?
11. Did he have to knock at the studio?
12. Who was there?
13. What did he feel he needed to do with Wheeler?
14. How does he describe the artist?
15. What does he decide to do since the artist's away?
16. What does he see across the room?
17. Does he turn away from it?
1. XXV
2. no
3. New York
4. Archie Moffam
5. third
6. James B. Wheeler,
7. he is an artist
8. Lucille
9. his wife
10. that morning
11. no
12. no one
13. chat
14. a light-hearted bird
15. wait
16. a picture
17. no