That is quite true!" "When will you give me my first lesson ?" she asked.

"Perhaps, though, you would like to wait a few days, in case you change your mind." "It takes me some time to make up my mind," he replied, "but I do not change it.

So I will give you your first lesson to-morrow.

Only you must not be impatient.

You must consent to be taught; you cannot possibly know everything!" They fixed a time for the morrow, and Bernardine went off with the camera; and meeting Marie on the staircase, confided to her the piece of good fortune which had befallen her.
"See what Herr Allitsen has lent me, Marie!" she said.
Marie raised her hands in astonishment.
"Who would have thought such a thing of Herr Allitsen ?" said Marie.
"Why, he does not like lending me a match." Bernardine laughed and passed on to her room.
And the Disagreeable Man meanwhile was cutting a new scientific book which had just come from England.