"What are you talking of?"
"The Happy Time; I know the Academy opened yesterday, I thought of it all the day long."
"Of course you did," he replied, smoothing my hair, "I was sure of it."
"Oh, Cornelius, do tell me."
"Can't you guess?"
His smiling face could hear but one interpretation. Overjoyed I threw my arms around his neck; he laughed, and said I looked quite wild. I know not how I looked, but I know I felt delighted.
"Is it well hung?" was my next question.
"Better than it deserves. Oh, Daisy, I have done nothing yet, but I knew you would like to know; so I came this morning to see you and to tell you."
"How glad Kate and Miss Russell must have been!" I sighed.
"Yes, but they are not crazy about my pictures like you, you foolish child. And now talk of something else. How are you? I find you pale."