I saw her glance anxiously at him, as if to know what really he might mean.

She concluded to interpret according to the context, however, and went on.
"But it will be so much better for all to undertake it, if one does.
Suppose they try and see how it will work, either before or after our lesson." "_De tout mon coeur_," said Mr.Langenau, as if, however, his _coeur_ had very little interest in the matter.
"Well, about the hour ?" said Charlotte, the woman of business; "we haven't settled that after all our talking." There was a great deal more, oh, a great deal more, and then it was settled that five in the afternoon should be considered the German hour--subject to alteration as circumstances should arise.
Mrs.Hollenbeck very discreetly ordered that a beginning should not be made till the next day but one.

"The gentlemen will all be here to-morrow, and there may be something else going on." I knew very well she was afraid of Richard, and thought he would not approve her zeal for our improvement.
The first lesson was very dull work for me.

It was agreed that Mary Leighton and I should take our lesson after the others, sitting beside them, however, for the benefit of such crumbs of information as might fall to us.
Mr.Langenau took no special notice of me then, and very little that was flattering when Mary Leighton and I began our lesson proper.

Mrs.
Hollenbeck, Charlotte, and Henrietta took up their books and left, when the infant class was called.