"Wants me to take down all my pictures—"
"Your pictures!"
"Yes—and remove all books but text-books from the school-room. And listen: he says my geraniums—fancy! my poor little red geraniums!—are 'not provided for in the curriculum.'"
"The curriculum!" cried Dove, hysterically.
"The curriculum," replied Letitia, without a smile. "Do you know what I asked him?" She leaned her chin upon her hands and gazed at Dove's laughing face across the table. "Do you know what I asked that man?"
"No."
"I asked him if Samuel Luther Shears was provided for in the curriculum."
"You didn't say Luther, Letitia!"
"I did—I said Luther."
"Darling! And what did he say to that?"