When she had finished she looked up.
"Now I'll take this home," she said.

"I can't do well on color with pencils.

You hold that article till I have time to put this on water-color paper and touch it up a bit here and there, and I believe it will be worthy of starting and closing your article." She pushed the sketches toward him.
"You little wonder!" said Peter softly.
"Yes, 'little' is good," scoffed Linda, rising to very nearly his height and reaching for the lunch basket.

"'Little' is good, Peter.

If I could do what I like to myself I would get in some kind of a press and squash down about seven inches." "Oh, Lord!" said Peter.