8/16 "I think it's pretty good. It seems as if it ought to be right, and then somehow it isn't. Bathing and plaything are 'most alike, and yet they sound awful different." "That's so. Well, anyway, it's plenty good enough, and it's all true, Tom." "Yes, it's all true." "Then it must be right, 'cause there's a quotation or something that says truth is beauty. We wouldn't want all our poems to be just alike, you know." "No, I s'pose not," and Tom felt greatly encouraged by Marjorie's kind criticism. |