I work fast and I rewrite. I wish it to convey. And perhaps the reason her novels seem diamond-hard and flawless is because, instead of fumbling with technique, she keeps her mind on people and what they are thinking and doing. Then for a second quality, her honesty of vision. I ought to have mentioned it first of all, but delayed because it seems less peculiarly her own.
People grow in honesty as they grow in anything else.
Notice, for example, her choice of heroes. As for the heroines, Thea Kronborg is almost typical. If you remember, she was the daughter of a preacher in Moonstone, Colorado. She went to Germany to study music. Any account of the loyalty of young hearts to an exalted ideal, and the passion with which they strive, will always, in some of us, rekindle generous emotions.