Strickland Canada Goose was plainly nervous. “Well, tell us your news,” she said. “I saw your husband.I’m afraid he’s quite made up his mind not to return.”I paused a little.”He wants to paint.” “What do you mean” cried Mrs. Strickland, with the utmost astonishment. “Did you never know that he was keen on that sort of thing.” “He must be as mad as a hatter,” exclaimed the Colonel. Mrs. Canada Goose Coat Strickland frowned a little.She was searching among her recollections. “I remember before we were married he used to potter about with a paint-box.But you never saw such daubs.We used to chaff him.He had absolutely no gift for anything like that.” “Of course it’s only an excuse,” said Mrs. MacAndrew. Mrs. Strickland pondered deeply for some time.It was quite clear Canada Goose Mens Snow Mantra Navy that she could not make head or tail of my announcement. She had put some order into the drawing-room by now, her housewifely instincts having got the better of her dismay; and it no longer bore that deserted look, like a furnished house long to let, which I had noticed on my first visit after Canada Goose Banff Parka Mens Brown the catastrophe.But now that I had seen Strickland in Paris it was difficult to imagine him in those surroundings.I thought it could hardly have failed to strike them that there was something incongruous in him. “But if he wanted to be an artist, why didn’t he say so” asked Mrs. Canada Goose Montebello Parka Womens Navy Strickland at last.”I should have thought I was the last person to be unsympathetic to to aspirations of that kind.” Mrs. MacAndrew tightened her lips.I imagine.