"The lessons? Were they too hard?"
"She said I needn't mind this morning."
"But the figuring bothered you."
"Of course I didn't know," she said candidly.
"You will get into it pretty soon. Betty'll train you. She's a master hand at figures, smarter than Warren."
Doris made no comment, but there was an unconfessed puzzle in her large eyes.
"Well, what is it?" The interest he took in her surprised himself.
"She whipped a boy on his hands with a ruler very hard because he couldn't remember his lesson."
"That's a good aid to memory. I've seen it tried when I was a boy."
"But if I had tried and tried and studied I should have thought it very cruel."