“Have you just come out from England?”
“Yes.”
“How did you find your way to Amitrano’s?”
“It was the only school I knew of.”
“I hope you haven’t come with the idea that you will learn anything here which will be of the smallest use to you.”
“It’s the best school in Paris,” said Miss Price. “It’s the only one where they take art seriously.”
“Should art be taken seriously?” the young man asked; and since Miss Price replied only with a scornful shrug, he added: “But the point is, all schools are bad. They are academical, obviously. Why this is less injurious than most is that the teaching is more incompetent than elsewhere. Because you learn nothing....”