They both went together back into the parlor to ask the question.
“I cannot tell, my children, whether it will or not. I see no indications, one way or the other. I think you had better forget all about it, and go to doing something else; for if you spend all the afternoon in watching the sky, and trying to guess whether it will clear up or not, you cannot enjoy yourselves, and may be sadly disappointed at last.”
“Why, we cannot help thinking of it, father.”
“You cannot, if you stand there at the back door, doing nothing else; but, if you engage in some other employment, you will soon forget all about it.”
“What do you think we had better do?” said Lucy.
“I think you had better go up and put your room and your desk all in order, Rollo; Lucy can help you.”
“But, father, I have put it in order a great many times, and it always gets out of order again very soon, and I cannot keep it neat.”
“That is partly because you do not put it in order right. You do not understand the principles of order.”
“What are the principles of order?” said Lucy.
“There are a good many. I will tell you some of them, and then you may go and apply them in arranging Rollo’s things.