"Yes, but you must remember one fact,—at least one among all the things that I have been telling you."
"I remember one," ventured Maggie.
"Well, then, we shall be glad to hear it."
"Why the Assyrians used to make their enemies look smaller than they when they made reliefs of battles," ventured Maggie.
"And the Egyptians were very fond of cats," added Gretchen; and with all her efforts this was all the information Pamela gleaned from the girls after her hour's work.
But before she had a chance to try a new and better way of presenting the Tanagra figures to them, she heard her name pronounced in a well-known voice, and looking up she saw Philip Blair gazing at her charges, and at her too, with an air of amusement.
"This is a surprise. I did not realize that you were a lover of art," she said a little awkwardly.
"Oh, yes, indeed, though I can't tell you when I've been in this museum before. It looks just about the same, though, as it did when I was a kid."
"There are some new paintings upstairs," said Pamela; "though it's almost closing time now," she added, glancing at her watch.
When they saw that Pamela was fairly absorbed in conversation, the three girls wandered off toward another room where, Concetta whispered, there were prettier things to be seen.