"Fine! Fine!"
"It's great fun. And of course they will be illustrated."
"Who's going to do it?"
"You."
Phil looked up quickly. She was laughing and blushing. "Of course you wouldn't consider it," she said, "but there might be money in it. How do you feel toward pot-boilers?"
"I don't know, Kathleen. Tell me more. What sort of illustrations?"
"Well, you saw me with that moss yesterday that I had brought up out of the woods? The slide I was making was to be the design for a tree in the illustration. I thought to make the pictures educational in a way. To put in a corner of the page what the original was. Moss, seaweed, an aphide, or whatever it happened to be."
"What a pretty idea!" said Phil.
"Of course, you don't want to do it, though," she went on in a different tone. "Just as your studio is finished, and you are aching to paint."