“He isn’t a picture.”
“No, it would be a pleasant change if he were.”
“It would be a pleasant change and a wise plan, too, if they set the Thorn Extractors to picking the arrows out of Saint Sebastian.”
“Indeed it would! And if they’d tie old Susannah to a tree, she wouldn’t look so silly as she usually does.”
“I fear your art instincts are frivolous. Come over here, Caddy, and hear Young America talk art.”
Caddy Oram, who had come in with Floyd, but had paused to speak to Nan, now came to greet Patty.
“Aren’t you properly awed by the art galleries?” he asked.
“I was, at first,” said Patty, truthfully, “but now, I’m so used to being awed that it doesn’t bother me so much.”
“That’s the worst of it,” said Caddy, “one does get used to being awed in Italy.”