`` It 's such a pity you could n't have gone to the Academy and studied for a teacher 's licence , '' said Pauline , who knew what Ada 's ambitions were . `` I should have liked that better , of course , '' said Ada quietly . `` But it is not possible , so I must do my best at the next best thing . Do n't let 's talk of it . It might make me feel blueish and I want to look especially pleasant if I 'm going to have my photo taken . '' `` You could n't look anything else , '' laughed Pauline . `` Do n't smile too broadly -- I want you to be looking over the asters with a bit of a dream on your face and in your eyes . If the picture turns out as beautiful as I fondly expect , I mean to put it in my exhibition collection under the title ' A September Dream . ' There , that 's the very expression . When you look like that , you remind me of somebody I have seen , but I ca n't remember who it is . All ready now -- do n't move -- there , dearie , it is all over . '' When Pauline went back to Colchester , she was busy for a month preparing her photographs for the exhibition , while Aunt Olivia renewed her spinning of all the little social webs in which she fondly hoped to entangle the Morgan Knowles and other desirable flies . When the exhibition was opened , Pauline Palmer 's collection won first prize , and the prettiest picture in it was one called `` A September Dream '' -- a tall girl with a wistful face , standing in an old-fashioned garden with her arms full of asters . The very day after the exhibition was opened the Morgan Knowles ' automobile stopped at the Wallace door . Mrs. Wallace was out , but it was Pauline whom stately Mrs. Morgan Knowles asked for . Pauline was at that moment buried in her darkroom developing photographs , and she ran down just as she was -- a fact which would have mortified Mrs. Wallace exceedingly if she had ever known it . But Mrs. Morgan Knowles did not seem to mind at all . She liked Pauline 's simplicity of manner . It was more than she had expected from the aunt 's rather vulgar affectations . `` I have called to ask you who the original of the photograph ' A September Dream ' in your exhibit was , Miss Palmer , '' she said graciously .
`` The resemblance to a very dear childhood friend XXXXX mine is so startling that I am sure it can not be accidental . ''
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