"That is a fact, isn't it?" agreed Tom. "You don't have to see the look on the fellows' faces to get the general effect of the picture even from a distance."
"We've been talking so much about color schemes in connection with Dorothy's new house, that I am sure the phrase is familiar to you," said Miss Graham. "Look at the color schemes of these pictures around us. Do you see that there are no discords because a color note is struck and all of the other shades and colors harmonize with it? That battle rush, for instance, is a study in red. Compare that with the dull misty blues, greens, and greys in LePage's 'Jeanne d'Arc.'"
They went from one picture to another and proved the truth of this statement to their satisfaction.
"Now we'll call our lesson done," said Miss Graham. "We'll have some luncheon downstairs and when we come up we can let Roger have his heart's desire, and we'll give the afternoon to looking at the Morgan and Altman and Riggs collections of wonders. I doubt if there was ever gathered together anywhere three such groups. The Altman pictures are choice, the Riggs armor is unequalled anywhere in the world, and the Morgan collection is the finest general collection ever owned by a private individual."
It was a weary but a happy party that returned to Rosemont in the late afternoon.
"One of these days is awfully hard on your head," confessed Roger, as he was talking to his mother about the Club's experience, "but it certainly is good for your gray matter."
"We're going to remember whenever we look at pictures again," said Ethel Brown.
"And there are lots of things in it that we shall think about when we look over the decorating in our house," insisted Dorothy.
"What I thought was the nicest of all was the way Miss Graham taught us. It was just like talking. I think she is awfully nice," was Ethel Blue's decision.
CHAPTER XV PREPARATIONS FOR THE HOUSEWARMING
The trip to the Metropolitan Museum gave every member of the party a new set of words for her vocabulary. They looked at pictures with opened eyes and talked of their "composition" and "balance." They were all of them more or less interested in photography and now they tried to take photographs that would be real pictures.