"That is where my Aunt Helen wants me to go, and perhaps I shall. Mother is a little doubtful, but Aunt Helen believes in a very broad education and thinks it will do us good to go up north for a year. I believe I'd rather stay out here, though."
"Oh, but surely you would prefer Boston," said Charlotte.
"But why? Of course you like it because it is your home, but I don't believe I should care to go there so very much."
Charlotte looked as if she had uttered a heresy. "I presume you have never been there," she replied as if that were sufficient reason for such an extraordinary statement.
"No, I have not, and perhaps you haven't been to Virginia and wonder why I prefer that to any place on earth," said Nan laughing and then she returned to music as a safer subject than local preferences. "Do you like the Spanish music?" she asked. "Just now I am wild about it."
"I prefer the German," Charlotte made answer.
"I like the German, too. Aunt Helen says that after a while I shall like it the best of all. She says when we get through school she wants us to go abroad and that then I shall just get soaked in music."
"Perhaps you will study in Berlin."
"Maybe. I don't know yet. I haven't got so far ahead as that."
"Of course you have heard opera. Which one do you like best?"