"Anybody might see this play, I think. And the audiences have grown more respectful and respectable. We are getting to be quite a staid and orderly city," and he laughed with a little irony.
"And just as soon as a girl is married she can go anywhere," Isabel declared.
"With her husband—yes."
"And I want to go to a real ball. I have outgrown children's parties. Oh, there are to be some splendid picnics when school closes. I hope we can go. Mother has so many engagements all the time. We ought to have a summer governess."
"That would be a good idea. One as manageable as the Señorita's," and he half nodded in Isola's direction.
"But she never wants to do anything worth while. Oh, dear, it isn't a nice thing never to be real well."
"No, I wouldn't like it."
"Do you know that Mr. Alvarado?"
"I only met him yesterday. They are Spanish Cubans, I believe."
"Come down and talk to him. Oh, I do get on so slowly with French and Spanish. Mother wishes she could send me to a good Eastern school, where they make girls study."