She then thought that probably by that time she had forgotten _Mary_; but on trying to write that word, she was very much pleased to find that she could write it much more easily than she could before.

This encouraged her, and she accordingly took Forester for her third lesson without any fear of forgetting the Mary and the Erskine.
The Forester lesson proved to be a very easy one.

There were only three new letters in it, and those three were very easy to write.

In fine, at the end of the four days, when Mary Bell was to go home, Mary Erskine could read, write, and spell her name very respectably well.
Mrs.Bell came herself for Mary when the time of her visit expired.
She was very much pleased to learn how good a girl and how useful her daughter had been.

She was particularly pleased with her drawings.