I can't study until the evening.

I have my work to do, all the day, and so I shall not begin my studies until the evening when you children are all gone to bed.
And besides, there is only one pen." "Oh, but you will not want the pen," said Mary Bell.

"You are going to learn to read." "No," said Mary Erskine.

"I am going to learn to write first." "Not _first_," said Mary Bell.

"We always learn to _read_, before we learn to write." "But I am going to learn to write first," said Mary Erskine.