"It is after four o'clock now, and you ought to go out and get a little of this pleasant sunshine.

By the way, how do you like this new business ?" "I should like it very well," said Cicely, as she stood by the table, "if I could get on faster with it, but I work so very, very slowly.

I made a calculation this morning, that if I work at the same rate that I have been working since I came here, it will take me thirteen years and eleven months to copy your manuscript." The doctor laughed.

"If a child should walk to school," he said, "at the same rate of speed that he takes his first toddling step on the nursery floor, it might take him about thirteen years to get there.

That is, if his school were at the average distance.