He began resolutely to whistle, but this dwindled away till it was a thin and very subdued little sound, which ceased altogether as he rode up the driveway to a large two-storied house.
"Oh, Joe!" He hesitated before the door to the library.

Bessie was there, he knew, studiously working up her lessons.

She must be nearly through with them, too, for she was always done before dinner, and dinner could not be many minutes away.

As for his lessons, they were as yet untouched.

The thought made him angry.