painting idea

painting idea
""I can give you it at once. It was sixty-four feet."
""How do you come to know it?" I asked in surprise.
" "When my old tutor used to give me an exercise in trigonometry, it always took the shape of measuring heights. When I was a lad I worked out every tree and building in the estate."
"This was an unexpected piece of luck. My data were coming more quickly than I could have reasonably hoped.
""Tell me," I asked, `did your butler ever ask you such a question?"
"Reginald Musgrave looked at me in astonishment. "Now that you call it to my mind," he answered, "Brunton did ask me about the height of the tree some months ago in connection with some little argument with the groom."