"I didn't care to be that at
first--Lilly says it is just a lovely accident and might happen to
anyone else. She wanted me to be class president; so I decided to
be both."
"You will observe that my daughter is not chiefly notable for her
reticence."
"You come to my studio, little lady, and I am going to paint you just as
golden and radiantly innocent as you are."
"What is 'radiantly innocent'?"
"Good Lord! I don't know any definition of it except--you."
"Zoe has no innocence in one sense, Mr. Daab. Her real innocence lies in
the fact that life has no ugly secrets from her. She knows the beautiful
from the ugly, and why it is so. I think that is what Mr. Daab means by
'radiant innocence,' Zoe.' Fearless knowledge of truth."
He whistled softly in the gloom.
"Extraordinary!" said Mrs. Daab. "And you are one of us--aren't you,
dear?"
"For suffrage? Oh yes; and I am going to be a real one when I grow up."
"What else are you going to be?"
"A singer."
"You said that as if you meant it."
"I do. I've already heard nine operas. I am allowed to be anything I
want so long as I get to the biggest--the very biggest!"
"Are you studying?"
"I've had piano lessons for five years.
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