Hyacinth and Marion worked obediently with a tape measure and the garden line.

One of the boys messed cheerfully with a pail of liquid whitening.

Afterwards the gardening was somewhat deserted, and Hyacinth was instructed in the game.

It took him a long time to learn, and for many afternoons he and Marion were regularly beaten, but she would not give up hope of him.

Often the excuse of her coming to the Quinns was the necessity of practising some new hymn or chant for Sunday.