'Life is short; one cannot do all things,' said the painter, quietly. 'I have tried not so much to imitate what I see as to paint people and things as I feel them, and as others appear to me to feel them.'
Dolly thought how many people he must have taught to feel, to see with their eyes, and to understand.
All the way home she was talking of the pictures.
'I saw a great many likenesses which were really admirable,' said Robert. 'I have met several of the people out at dinner.'
Rhoda could not say a single word about the pictures.
'Why, what were you about?' said Dolly, after she had mentioned two or three one after another. 'You don't seem to have looked at anything.'
'You didn't come into the back room, Dolly. I had an excellent cup of tea there,' said George; 'that kind lady had it sent up for us.'