"Bring this one with you tomorrow," Nat said, holding one that seemed to show a wolf spirit flowing out of an Indian woman. "Sasha will buy one like it. You might make another ten to twenty sales."

"You really like them?" Gretchen said.

"Love them," Nat said, "or I wouldn't be paying five thousand for one. It's really more than Daphne and I should afford, but I have to have one."

"For helping to promote my work here in New England, I'll sell it at half price."

"Then I'll take two," Nat said, laughing. "I'll see if I can get one of them promoted at an art gallery I know...