"You wouldn't set me to study Wordsworth?"
"By no means."
"I am glad of that—though there must be more in him than I see, or you couldn't care for him so much!"
"Some of Nature's lessons you must learn before you can understand them."
"Can you call it learning a lesson if you do not understand it?"
"Yes—to a certain extent. Did you learn at school to work the rule of three?"
"Yes; and I was rather fond of it."
"Did you understand it?"
"I could work sums in it."
"Did you see how it was that setting the terms down so, and working out the rule, must give you a true answer. Did you perceive that it was safe to buy or sell, to build a house, or lay out a garden, by the rule of three?"