"Same as Nellie's."
"Blue?"
"Yes; like her eyes."
"Nonsense," said Nellie; "how ridiculous you are, Arthur."
"Not at all; you can't deny it."
"I can; they are no colour at all."
"Oh!" said Arthur.
"Here, Arthur," said his mother; "now see how cleverly you can do it."
Arthur turned out to be the most absorbed of the party, and Netta and Isabel nearly equalled him.
He bent over his cardboard, and hardly looked up till he laid his two pieces, very tolerably done, before his mother.