Do you care about poetry ?" The eager eyes looked peremptorily into hers.
"Yes," said Mrs.Friend shyly--"I'm very fond of some things.

But you'd think them old-fashioned!" "What--Byron ?--Shelley?
They're never old-fashioned!" "I never read much of them.

But--I love Tennyson--and Mrs.Browning." Helena made a face-- "Oh, I don't care a hang for her.

She's so dreadfully pious and sentimental.

I laughed till I cried over 'Aurora Leigh.' But now--French things! If you lived all that time in France, you must have read French poetry.