She braved it for a moment or two w

She braved it for a moment or two with an eye full of love and stubbornness, and murmured a phrase or two vaguely of General Pinkney; but at length down went her head and out came the truth and tears.
‘I couldn’t get any pupils,’ she confessed. ‘And I couldn’t bear to have you give up your lessons; and I got a place ironing shirts in that big Twenty-fourth Street laundry. And I think I did very well to make up both General Pinkney and Clementina, don’t you, Joe? And when a girl in the laundry set down a hot iron on my about the Welsh rabbit. You’re not angry are you, Joe? And if I hadn’t god the work you mightn’t have sold your sketches to that man from Peoria.’
‘He wasn’t form Peoria,’ said Joe slowly
‘Well, it doesn,t matter where he was from. How clever you are, Joe-and-kiss me, Joe-and what made you ever suspect that I wasn’t giving music lessons to Clementina?’
‘I didn’t,’ said Joe, ‘until to-night. And I wouldn’t have then, only I sent up this cotton waste and oil from the engine-room this afternoon for a girl upstairs who had her hand burned with a smoothing-iron. I’ve been firing the engine in that laundry for the last two weeks.’
‘And then you didn’t-’
‘My purchaser from Peoria,’ said Joe, ‘and General Pinkney are both creations of the same art-but you wouldn’t call it either painting or music.
And then they both laughed, and Joe began:
‘When one loves one’s Art no service seem-’
But Delia stopped him with her hand onhis lips. ‘No,’ she said-‘just “When one loves.” ’