They must be at once Proud and Humble at this their Great Opportunity.

They must Observe, Learn, and Practice.

First and foremost in their eyes must always be this wonderful Important Trust.
Bertram laughed at first very heartily at Billy's instructions, which, he declared, were so bristling with capitals that he could fairly see them drop from her lips.

Then, when he found how really very much in earnest she was, and how hurt she was at his levity, he managed to pull his face into something like sobriety while she talked to him, though he did persist in dropping kisses on her cheeks, her chin, her finger-tips, her hair, and the little pink lobes of her ears--"just by way of punctuation" to her sentences, he said.

And he told her that he wasn't really slighting her lips, only that they moved so fast he could not catch them.