“Oh, yes. Aunt Helen approves of it, and, when I can go, I shall have a chance to hear good music which I can do better in New York than anywhere else.”
“Of course, I can understand that such opportunities as New York affords for music would be a great factor in your decision. What about Miss Jo?”
“We don’t know exactly. She is trying for some tutoring. If she gets it she will enter Barnard with me.”
“She is a bright little body. I never knew any one more capable.”
“We all think that, and isn’t she the very best sort of companion? If she goes to Barnard it will be a very strong reason for my going, too. If ever I get in the dumps Jo will be there to pull me out. She can so much more easily find stepping-stones in New York than elsewhere that I think she is pretty sure to enter with me. Charlotte Loring is at Barnard, too, and that is another thing in its favor. I was rather surprised she didn’t choose Radcliffe or Wellesley, but she said she thought it would be better for her development to go further from home, and Charlotte is nothing if not conscientious. She’d live on nails and wear dried peas in her shoes if she thought it better for her development. She and Jo hope to room together as they used to do at the Wadsworth school, so I shall have to have a strange roommate or be by myself. I think perhaps I’d rather room alone.”
“And after college, what? More travel?”
“Oh, I don’t know. I am not looking so far ahead. One never can tell.”
“Those were good old days in Munich, but I am afraid we shall never repeat them.”
“If we could have it all over just the same, I’d like it, but Aunt Helen says I couldn’t, that there is always something different when one tries to repeat experiences. For one thing you wouldn’t be there, Dr. Paul, and that would make a heap of difference.”
“Would it, Nan? I’m glad of that. It would make a great difference to me if I returned and you were not there, just as it will make a great difference to all of us when you come back to the old Virginia home.”