Paula looked on at a distance.
'I will hold it,' she said.
She went to the required corner and held the end in its place.

She had taken it the wrong way, and Somerset went over and placed it properly in her fingers, carefully avoiding to touch them.

She obediently raised her hand to the corner again, and stood till he had finished, when she asked, 'Is that all ?' 'That is all,' said Somerset.

'Thank you.' Without further speech she looked at his sketch-book, while he marked down the lines just acquired.
'You said the other day,' she observed, 'that early Gothic work might be known by the under-cutting, or something to that effect.

I have looked in Rickman and the Oxford Glossary, but I cannot quite understand what you meant.' It was only too probable to her lover, from the way in which she turned to him, that she HAD looked in Rickman and the Glossary, and was thinking of nothing in the world but of the subject of her inquiry.
'I can show you, by actual example, if you will come to the chapel ?' he returned hesitatingly.
'Don't go on purpose to show me--when you are there on your own account I will come in.' 'I shall be there in half-an-hour.' 'Very well,' said Paula.