"
His tone was that of a brother, warm and kind. She responded to it.
"I am doing as well as I could expect. Almost every day I have a
sitter--sometimes two. My friends are very good; they bring me every one
who will come. People seem to like the things I do--some of them."
"Almost every day you have a sitter!" he repeated. "Do you call that
doing well? How long have you been here?"
"Just seven weeks. Yes, I do call that doing well. It takes time to
become established, of course. Now that I have made pictures of many
of the prominent people others will follow, I'm confident. You know this
isn't the portrait season--too many have cameras of their own and are
taking snapshots of outdoor scenes, with themselves in the foreground."
"You don't find yourself wishing you had stayed in the city, as I
advised?"
"Not a bit. I want more experience first. I want to be able to do work
I needn't apologize for when I really begin with a city studio."
"You are doing finished work, in my opinion."
"Not in mine."
He laughed. "There is nothing weak about your will," said he.
"I hope not. I need a strong one."
"Granted, if you mean to persist in making your own way. But I live in
hope that when you have demonstrated to your own satisfaction that you
are perfectly competent to hew out that way for yourself, you will be
willing to let some stouter pair of arms take a turn with the axe.
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