Chapter 23: 22

22 John Munting to Elizabeth Drake 15a, Whittington Terrace 1.12.28 Beloved Bungie, Here we are again! Back home and full of beans and fit to face anything, even Lathoms and Milsoms. By the way, I’ve got to take back what I said about Lathom. I’ll forgive him anything for being such a bloody fine painter. My God, he has made a fine thing of Mrs. Harrison—old Halkett would grunt in his funny gruff way and say, “It’s a masterpiece.” He wants to send it to the Academy (where…