"So that by the time they have the means they will be ready for them? — But dear me! that is a difficult matter!" said Elizabeth.
Her companion smiled a little.
"But they haven't any talent, Mr. Landholm, — nor industry nor circumstance either. To be sure those latter wants might be made up."
"Most people have talent, of one sort or another," said
Winthrop. "There's a little specimen pretty well stocked."
"Do you think so?"
"Try her."
"I don't know how to try her!" said Elizabeth. "I wish you would."
"I don't know how, either," said Winthrop. "Circumstances have been doing it this some time."
"I wish she hadn't come in," said Elizabeth. "She has unsettled all my ideas."
"They will rest the better for being unsettled."