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Berenson makes a number of waspish comments about her fellow countrywomen. Both she and Berenson find "the men fifty times as interesting as the women ... I was never in a country where the sexes appear to me so separated. In wicked old Europe they have at least love-making to keep them together, but here after the pairing time, they have nothing in common!" She also warns Horne that two young women in New York are making the rounds with some very poor pictures which they claim Horne has guaranteed: "If the name Berenson is mentioned they say he is only an inferior pupil of yours who takes all he knows from you." She concludes by remarking that "Mrs. Gardner's Palazzo is really wonderful" and that "Fry & Holmes ... have taken over the Burlington." It was Mary Berenson who persuaded the dying Horne to leave his Florentine home to the Italian state where it is now the Museo Horne