Now, don't be too long with your hoeing or with your chores, for supper will be early this evening." Dorian hoed only ten rows that afternoon for the reason that he sat down to rest and to think at the end of each row.

Then he dallied so with his chores that his mother had to call him twice.

At last he could find no more excuses between him and the strange company.

He went in with much fear and some invisible trembling..