“Do you think he paints well?”
“I think he is best in landscape. What do you think?”
“I think that, too. I think he needs to study figure more, and besides I believe he has more feeling for out-of-doors than for indoors.”
“That is about the correct criticism, I should think, though I don’t profess to know as much as you do about such things. What have you decided about college, Nan?”
“I think, taking all things into consideration, that Barnard will be the best.”
“I am glad it is no further away, though I did hope you would go no further than Baltimore.”
“Aunt Helen and mother think it will be pleasant for me to be near the Pinckneys. You know Mercedes is coming on to the wedding, and they are begging all of us to spend the winter in New York.”
“And will the others?”
“No, the girls must go back to Miss Cameron’s, mother says, and she can stay in Washington all winter, for it will not be quite so hard a climate. We are hoping Mary Lee will be ready for college next year, so I shall have her.”
“I hope then that she will be ready. You think you will like the college?”