HARRIET. Whom is he going to paint here?
MAGGIE [frightened]. What names dare I make up?
MARGARET [calmly]. Just at present Miss Dorothy Ainsworth of Oregon is posing. You may not know the name, but she is the daughter of a wealthy miner who found gold in Alaska.
HARRIET. I dare say there are many Western people we have never heard of.
MARGARET. You must have found social life in New York very interesting, Harriet, after the simplicity of our home town.
HETTY [to MAGGIE]. There's no need to remind us that our beginnings were the same.
HARRIET. Of course Charles's family made everything delightful for me. They are so well connected.
MAGGIE [to MARGARET]. Flatter her.
MARGARET. I heard it mentioned yesterday that you had made yourself very popular. Some one said you were very clever!
HARRIET [pleased]. Who told you that?