He turned away, and began to set his palette, while she seated herself.
Hester watched the lesson for half an hour, till it was time to go and make ready for her munition-workers.

And she watched it with increasing pleasure, and increasing scorn of a certain recurrent uneasiness she had not been able to get rid of.

Nothing could have been better than Farrell's manner to Ariadne.

It was friendly, chivalrous, respectful--all it should be--with a note of protection, of unspoken sympathy, which, coming from a man nearly twenty years older than the little lady herself, was both natural and attractive.

He made an excellent teacher besides, handling her efforts with a mixture of criticism and praise, which presently roused Nelly's ambition, and kindled her cheeks and eyes.