At lunch-time they teased her to show them what she had written, but she had only a few lines completed, and would not let them see even the paper on which she had been scribbling.

After lunch the others went to their rooms to write letters and sleep awhile, but she went back to her task.

Joyce's picture did not turn out to her satisfaction, and she tore it up, but Betty did her work over and over, rewriting each line many times.

When they were all dressed for dinner, she did not appear.

Finally Joyce went to see what kept her so long.