Adah nodded, and was soon gazing on the dark, haughty face she knew so well, and which, even from the casing, seemed to smile disdainfully upon, her, just as the original had often done.
"What do you think of her?" Anna asked.
Adah must say something, and she replied:
"I dare say people think her pretty."
"Yes; but what do you think? I asked your opinion," persisted Anna; and thus beset Adah replied at last:
"I think her too showily dressed for a picture. She displays too much jewelry."
Anna began to defend her future sister.
"There's rather too much of ornament, I'll admit, but she's a great beauty, and attracts much attention. Why, one of her pictures hangs in Brady's Gallery."
"At Brady's!" and Adah spoke quickly. "I should not suppose your brother would like to have it there where so many can look at it."
Anna tried to shield the heartless 'Lina, never dreaming how much more than herself Adah knew of 'Lina Worthington.