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Now these things you paint grow out of a mental
image--don't they, dear? The things you paint the mind sees first, so
that the mental image is the true one, and then you--approximate. I
should think then that it might help you to _tell_ about pictures. For
instance, if in painting a picture you had to tell about it to some one
who did not look at it, wouldn't that make your own mental image more
clear, and so help make it more real to you?'
"Why, Karl, I never thought of it, but,"--meditatively--"yes, I believe
it would."
He turned away that she might not see the gladness in his face. "And it
would be interesting--wouldn't it--to see just how good a conception you
could give of the picture through words?"
"Yes," she said, interested now--"it would be a way of feeling one's own
grip on it."
"Of course," he continued, "that couldn't be done except in a case, like
yours and mine, where people were close together."
"Yes," she assented, "and that in itself would show that they were close
together.


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