"When you get your new watch you won't have to stop to look at the clock," said his friend.
"His watch!" exclaimed Emma; "he is not certain of getting it."
"Oh!" said the friend; "I thought his uncle had promised to give him one."
"Not exactly," interrupted John hastily, knowing that Uncle John could hear all that was going on. "There are certain conditions."
"Oh!" And his friend said no more.
"How about the Latin lesson to-day?" asked Uncle John, the next evening, to his nephew's great confusion, as he replied:
"Well, uncle, the truth is, I forgot it last night, but I mean to take it up the first thing this evening." And he did so, finding that the hardest lesson is the easiest when learned first. "I know it perfectly, perfectly. Emma, just hear me, and see if I do not."
Emma was standing by the window as she took the book and heard it for him, and they stood together looking out at the passers-by.
"Here comes Mary Baker, I do believe," said Emma. Maud ran to the window, and was very much disappointed when she did not see her friend coming, as she expected.