1 ave only mile a nosegay of culled flowers and have brought nothing of "my "own "but the "thread that ties them topcthers Montaigne, m extraordinarily bad ranging flowers, and Lavinia is amazingly good, so what is more natural than that I, having some }0 arrange, should telephone Lavinia and make her promise to come snd arrange them with me, If sue does most of the work, I" suppose it must!e that she Tikes i in lives up to her name. T would wot say she is staid, Anything but, she is full of "quiet humour." But she is most decidedly the type of girl who looks her very best in a robe de style, so I suppose that she has rather an early Victorian air about her. She also has her own ideas on subjects, though.
"Lavinia," 1 demanded, once we had really' settled down' to work, surrounded by cans of water, vases and masses of flowers of every deserription, "Why can you arrange flowers, so much better than I? Please note the perfect grammar Probably because you don't try was the terse reply "Lavinia You scandalize me," I exclaimed, "I om sure T try."
"Well, then you try all wrong. You probably endeavour to arrange them in a hurry and do not thin notch about where I stand up against twigs of trees. One should try t2 make them look natural.
"Another thing that you often forget is that it is better to have a colour scheme, one room all pink and mauve flowers and 80 on, except of course' when you are using flowers like the coloured mar-queries that bloom in the Spring," T mean summer really, but even then you can keep to two or three colours perfectly ensily Now," I interrupted for the second time, "Don't give me a lecture on the fine arts of arranging flowers as demonstrated by Miss lavinia Glendinning, the well known exponent. But here is little question upon which you may ponder at length if you like, "Does one dislike arranging flowers because one cannot do. it, or can't one do it because one does not like, personally I dislike handent and decaying vegetable and dabbling in iey water."
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