"Yes, I'll forgive you; but you must try to pay attention."
When the cucumber-frame was finished Sister Mary John was busy making some kitchen chairs, and the cutting out of the chair-backs moved Evelyn's curiosity.
"Shall you really be able to make a chair that one can sit upon?"
"I hope so."
"Have you ever made one before?"
"Well, no, this is my first chair, but I made several stools."
The mystery of dovetailing was explained to Evelyn, and she learned that glue was required.
"Now you may, if you like, melt the glue for me."
There was a stove in the adjoining shed, and Sister Mary John lighted a fire and told Evelyn that she was to keep stirring the glue. "And be sure not to let it burn." But when she came back twenty minutes after, she found that Evelyn had wandered away from the stove to the farther end of the shed to watch a large spider.
"Oh, Sister, just look at the spider! There is a fly in the web; see how he comes out to seize his prey!"