3863. Years
later the sculptor would come to regret making an enemy of his partner on the
trip to Harriet’s home, but that is a different story. For now I will just point
out that the two of them were not on friendly terms when they entered Harriet’s
house; far from it.
3864. At the
very time the painter and the sculptor were traveling in a carriage and talking
about Russian church architecture, another conversation about art was going on
upstairs in Harriet’s home. It was a conversation between the tutor and
Harriet's daughter Emily.
3865. Emily and
the tutor were very close, and had been good friends for several years. Emily
was thirteen, and the tutor, whom you will remember was named Frida, was 28.
Theirs was a friendship of equals even though they were so unequal in age.
Emily loved her tutor because she knew so many things.
3866. Emily
also loved Frida because she seemed to know instinctively what she was thinking
and feeling. Indeed, sometimes Emily and Frida appeared to be two flowers on
the same stem, so similar were they. This similarity was only obvious to them,
and nobody else ever saw it.
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