Mary Bell said that it was not quite finished, and she wished to remain at her desk a little longer to complete it.

Mary Erskine gave her leave to do so.
Bella, who had gone away at first, dancing to the door, pleased to be released from her confinement, came back to see Mary Bell's picture, while her mother was examining it.

She seemed very much pleased with it indeed.

Then she asked her mother to look at her letters upon the board.

Mary Erskine and Mary Bell both looked at them, one by one, very attentively, and compared them with the letters which Mary Bell had made for patterns, and also with specimens of the letters in the books.