The <span>conclusion you can draw about the little girl in "The Little Girl in the Blue Armchair" by Mary Cassatt is that </span><span>She is a delicate young lady. </span>
There is a conflict between rumor and reality in this excerpt.
On one hand, we have the rumor - that Nick became engaged to someone, and everybody heard it was true. However, on the other hand, we have the reality - that he in fact is not engaged, thus the whole story is just a gossip rather than something that actually happened.