Don't you want to advise me a little, Mrs.
Leighton?
You know how much I value your taste, and I'd like to have you look at the design for the cover of the first number: they're going to have a different one for every number.

I don't know whether you'll agree with me, but I think this is rather nice." He faced the dummy round, and then laid it on the table before Mrs.
Leighton, pushing some of her work aside to make room for it and standing over her while she bent forward to look at it.
Alma kept her place, away from the table.
"Mah goodness! Ho' exciting!" said Miss Woodburn.

"May anybody look ?" "Everybody," said Beaton.
"Well, isn't it perfectly choming!" Miss Woodburn exclaimed.

"Come and look at this, Miss Leighton," she called to Alma, who reluctantly approached.
"What lines are these ?" Mrs.Leighton asked, pointing to Beaton's pencil scratches.
"They're suggestions of modifications," he replied.
"I don't think they improve it much.

What do you think, Alma ?" "Oh, I don't know," said the girl, constraining her voice to an effect of indifference and glancing carelessly down at the sketch.