I'll be awfully polite, but I'll hunt up the longest words I can find in the dictionary, and talk about the books I've read, and she'll have such a stupid time she won't want to come again." The course of action once settled upon, Mary fell to work with her usual energy.

While the girls were taking their daily siesta, she dressed early and went down into the library.

If it had not been for the fear of missing something, she would have spent much of her time in that attractive room.

Books looked down so invitingly from the many shelves.
All the June magazines lay on the library table, their pages still uncut.

Everybody had been too busy to look at them.