Unless you can give yourself up to it while you are about it, it's not meant for you--and-- and I'm very sorry indeed I made such a stupid mistake as to think you meant what you said when you told me you wanted to learn." And she took the copy down from the easel.
"Look here, Rosalind," said Roger, in unusual perturbation, "I'm so sorry.

You're quite right.

Of course one can't do two things at once.
I'll--" "You're a dear boy, as I've said before," said Miss Oliphant, brightening up suddenly and accepting her victory serenely.

"Now please both of you draw the picture again from memory as exactly as you can." "What's the long and short of it all ?" presently whispered Tom, who had been supremely indifferent to the argument.

"Is it larks or no larks ?" "Shut up!--that's what it is," said Roger.
"All right; thanks," said Tom contentedly.
And for a quarter of an hour more the two worked steadily and silently, the only sound in the room being the scratching of their pencils and Rosalind's occasional terse criticisms over their shoulders.
This little incident opened Roger's eyes considerably.