Doctor At Villa Ronda
“AH the same there were fleeting occasions when he seemed to escape from Elena’s supervision, if that was what it was, and spend an odd half-hour with Nicola.She had accepted Adrienne’s suggestion that she should try painting.“Daub away as you feel,” advised Adrienne. “What does it matter to spoil a canvas?”“Who knows? Someone might think my effort much better spoilt and read genius into it, especially upside down.”“You must not mock art,” Adrienne rebuked her. “One must look beneath the surface....”“I’ll be content to paint the bay and the rocks and a chunk of blue sky,” declared Nicola, “and hope that I won’t have to put a caption underneath ‘This is a picture of Cala Castell.’ ”Adrienne supplied Nicola with brushes and colours, a small portable easel and showed her how to carry a wet painting home without smudging it.“I am most grateful to my art teacher,” Nicola thanked her.“You are not in the serious mood that one should be,” grumbled Adrienne.One evening before dinner Nicola was in a corner of the garden painting part of an archway between two courtyards and trying to catch the light and the long shadows.MoreLess
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