Claudia held a scholarship at a college of
music, and was training for grand opera. With her talent and lovely face
she had good prospects before her, but the Castleton strain was strong in
her, as also in Morland, and it needed Lorraine's insistent urging to
make her realise that it does not do only to dream your ideals, that you
must toil at them with strong hands and earth-stained fingers, and that
on this physical plane no success can ever be achieved without hard work.
"They'll both of them absolutely have to be towed through life!" thought
Mavis. "I could shake the whole family sometimes. Beata's the most
practical, but the others might have strayed out of a poetry book! Of
course they're all perfectly charming and romantic, but you want to frame
them and glaze them and hang them in exhibitions, not set them to do
ordinary every-day things. They don't fit somehow into the twentieth
century. Lorraine stirs them up like yeast. She'll be the making of
Morland if she elects to take on so big a job.
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