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But, though these were Gerda's own people, the circle in which she felt at home, she looked forward every night to the morning, when there would be the office again, and Barry.
Sometimes Barry took her out to dinner and a theatre. They went to the Beggar's Opera, The Grain of Mustard Seed, Mary Rose (which they found sentimental), and to the Beggar's Opera again Gerda had her own ideas, very definite and critical, about dramatic merit. Barry enjoyed discussing the plays with her, listening to her clear little silver voice pronouncing judgment. Gerda might be forever mediocre in any form of artistic expression, but she was an artist, with the artist's love of merit and scorn of the second-rate.