Winters'
tones are full of genteel decision. "I have made out a little list, dear
Nancy, of some things which I thought, in my funny old way, might possibly
be worth your while. We will talk it over after dinner, if you like--"
"Thank you so much, dear Mrs. Winters" says Nancy with dutiful
hopelessness. She is only too well acquainted with Mrs. Winters' little
lists. "As an _artist_, as an _artist_, dear Nancy, especially." Mrs.
Winters breathes somewhat heavily, "Things That Should Interest you.
Nothing Bizarre, you understand, Nothing Merely Freakish--but some of the
Things in New York that I, Personally, have found Worth While."
The Things that Mrs. Winters Has Found Personally Worth While include a
great many public monuments. She will give Nancy a similar list of Things
Worth While in Paris, too, before Nancy sails--and Nancy smiles acceptably
as each one of them is mentioned.
Only Mrs. Winters cannot see what Nancy is thinking--for if she did she
might become startlingly human at once as even the most perfectly poised
of spinsters is apt to do when she finds a rat in the middle of her neat
white bed.
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