“Now,” continued Mary Jay, “that will be your place to study; but the place to keep your books after you have done studying is on a shelf in the closet. You may go and see if you can find it.”
So Lucy went to the closet again. She found a small shelf there, pretty low, so that she could not only reach it, to put things on and take them off, but she could see all over it.
There was an inkstand upon this shelf, and a ruler and a pencil.
“Whose inkstand, and ruler, and pencil, are these, Mary Jay, on my shelf?” said Lucy.
“They are yours,” said Mary Jay.
“I don’t suppose I ought to call you Mary Jay,” said Lucy, “now you are my teacher.”
“Yes,” said Mary Jay, “call me by that name, just as you always have done.”
“Am I going to write with pen and ink?” said Lucy.
“Yes,” said Mary Jay.
“But I don’t know how to write with pen and ink,” said Lucy.