Also it was a walk along paths; there were no incursions into the heart of the woods they went through, nor did they go in a single meadow and roll in the grass with the dogs.

Also, since the hour was undeniably shining, she thought it well to improve it by imparting a little instruction in botany.

Pollyooly found it quite uninteresting; she did not care at all whether a flower had four stems or fourteen.
Stamens seemed to her childish mind quite unimportant; the colour and fragrance of the flower seemed to her the only important things.
As they came into the court Miss Belthorp chanced to say: "I do hope that you haven't been neglecting your piano, Marion.

I always think that music is so important in the formation of character." Pollyooly had not been neglecting her piano, because she had no piano to neglect.

The piano played no part in any of the seven standards she had passed at Muttle Deeping school; and she did not know one note from another.