She might have painted if she'd been poor; though that's not a sure thing either." "Why isn't it ?" asked Weston, who had, however, no great interest in the matter.
"She has too level a head," Grenfell said.

"It's as fatal in art as it is in some professions.

You have to concentrate, hang on to the one thing, and give yourself to it.

Miss Kinnaird couldn't do that.

She must stop and count the cost.