I don't mean, of course, that we have it in _our_ home; but I'm speaking of the ideal condition where there _is_ an atmosphere.

I've made a point of keeping good books lying about the house, and the best magazines and reviews.

I was never happier than the day I found Marian curled up on a lounge reading Keats.

It may be that the real literary instinct, such as I feel Marian has, would only be spoiled by college; and I should like nothing better than to have Marian become a writer.

A good many of our best American women writers have not been college women; I was looking that up only the other day." Sylvia listened, deeply interested; then she laughed suddenly, and as Mrs.Bassett turned toward her she felt that it would do no harm to repeat a remark of Mrs.Owen's that had struck her as being funny.
"I just happened to remember something Mrs.Owen said about colleges.
She said that if it isn't in the colt the trainer can't put it there; and I suppose the successful literary women have had genius whether they had higher education or not.