Then I went up to my room and read through (partly writing) two exercises in German, which took me thirty-five minutes.
"It was stormy, and I had no observing to do, so I sat down to my tatting.

Lizzie E.came in and I took a new lesson in tatting, so as to make the pearl-edged.

I made about half a yard during the evening.

At a little after nine I went home with Lizzie, and carried a letter to the post-office.

I had kept steadily at work for sixteen hours when I went to bed.".