“She’s a pretty girl,” said Roger, with his hand on his heart. Tom nodded in agreement, but James shook his head.
“She looks silly,” he said sternly.
“There isn’t any story to her picture, I’m sure,” said Helen. “That’s just a portrait.”
“But may not a portrait indicate something of the character of the sitter?” asked Miss Graham.
“It ought to,” returned Margaret, “and I should think there was something of this girl’s character in the portrait, but there’s nothing to show that this might be the illustration of a story.”
“Unless it were the frontispiece, showing the picture of the heroine,” said Roger.
“But the heroine doing nothing that is told about in the story,” insisted Helen.
Miss Graham made no comment on these criticisms but led the way to another picture, also of a girl, but this time of a girl in the dress of a peasant and not handsomely arrayed as was Miss Farren.
“There is a bigger difference than clothes between these two,” said Della, “but I don’t know just what it is. This girl isn’t pretty like Miss Farren.”
“Do you know who this is?” asked Miss Daisy.