But if you had been here yesterday, Mr.Arkwright, you'd have met lots like yourself, men and women who are doing things: singing, playing, painting, illustrating, writing.

Why, we even had a poet, sir--only he didn't have long hair, so he didn't look the part a bit," she finished laughingly.
"Is long hair--necessary--for poets ?" Arkwright's smile was quizzical.
"Dear me, no; not now.

But it used to be, didn't it?
And for painters, too.

But now they look just like--folks." Arkwright laughed.
"It isn't possible that you are sighing for the velvet coats and flowing ties of the past, is it, Miss Neilson ?" "I'm afraid it is," dimpled Billy.

"I _love_ velvet coats and flowing ties!" "May singers wear them?
I shall don them at once, anyhow, at a venture," declared the man, promptly.
Billy smiled and shook her head.
"I don't think you will.