"
"Then we'll get Edward Watkins to ask her whether she'll be willing to
teach a class, and we'll all join it."
"The other women might like to learn, too."
"Perhaps they could teach. Bulgarian embroidery has been fashionable
lately, you know, and the peasant women do it."
"Your grandmother and I went through a Peasant's Bazar when we were in
Petrograd and there were mounds of embroidery there that the peasant
women had made."
"The Swedes do beautiful work. Why don't we have a class for
international embroidery?" laughed Dorothy. "I think Mother would like
to learn the Russian; she's crazy about Russian music and everything
Russian."
"We'll ask Mother and Grandmother, too, and perhaps the Miss Clarks
would come and the women could charge a fee and make a little money
teaching us and be amused themselves."
"I dare say it will do the others good as well as the little Italian.
You've hit on something that will benefit all of them while you were
trying to help Mrs. Paterno," surmised Mr. Emerson. "What I came over
here this morning to see you about was this," he went on in a
business-like tone that made them look at him attentively.
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