Anne caught the twinkle in Charlotte's eyes and returned it.
"I'd forgotten all about it," Hilda went on. "But I shouldn't wonder if that wouldn't be a good thing to keep up. Do you do it?"
"I don't take the novel, but I try to get quiet some part of every day."
"I don't know that I could do it without a book. There doesn't seem to be anything to think about when you just sit down and try to think."
"Don't try to think. Don't try to do anything. Just relax."
"Good gracious, I'd have to crochet or something. I'd feel wicked sitting like that wasting the time."
"It's the one thing that isn't wasting time. It's getting at the only thing in Life worth getting at."
"Is it? Well, I must say if you can keep your house looking the way it does and find time to sit round doing nothing, nothing at all, I guess there's something in it. I don't know but what I'll try it sometime."
"Perhaps you'd understand better if you didn't 'try it' alone."
"But I'd feel so silly relaxing with other people looking at me."