It will only spoil his work if he does; and it will spoil mine too.' The rose continued to nod it the futile way peculiar to flowers.

There was no earthly reason why Dick should not disport himself as he chose, except that he was called by Providence, which was Maisie, to assist Maisie in her work.

And her work was the preparation of pictures that went sometimes to English provincial exhibitions, as the notices in the scrap-book proved, and that were invariably rejected by the Salon when Kami was plagued into allowing her to send them up.

Her work in the future, it seemed, would be the preparation of pictures on exactly similar lines which would be rejected in exactly the same way----The red-haired girl threshed distressfully across the sheets.

'It's too hot to sleep,' she moaned; and the interruption jarred.
Exactly the same way.