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?
MAGGIE. Nobody!
MARGARET [pleasantly]. Oh, confidences should be suspected --
respected, I mean. They said, too, that you are gaining some
reputation as a critic of art.
HARRIET. I make no pretenses.
MARGARET. Are you and Mr. Goodrich interested in the same things,
too?
HETTY.
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