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 Lyngstrand.

Why, so you must! Fancy! It's almost a kind of art. Can you draw too?

Boletta.

Oh yes, when I have a copy before me.

Lyngstrand.

Not unless?

Boletta.

No, not unless.

Lyngstrand.

Then it's not really art after all.

Boletta.

No, it's more of a—a knack.

Lyngstrand.

But I should think, now, that you could probably learn art?

Boletta.

Even though I have no turn for it?

Lyngstrand.

Yes, in spite of that—if you could be always with a real born artist

Boletta.

Do you think I could learn from him?

Lyngstrand.

I don't mean "learn" in the ordinary sense. But I think it would come to you by degrees—by a sort of miracle, Miss Wangel.