"Did you see her to-day?"
"We had German compo to-day. I didn't do much with it."
"Why not?"
"It didn't seem to go off well. I don't know why. Perhaps I didn't try as hard as usual."
"Did it disturb Fräulein?"
"Did what disturb Fräulein?"
"That you didn't do your lesson well."
"Disturb Fräulein? I don't know. Why should it disturb her? I should think I was the one to be disturbed."
"Were you?"
"Was I disturbed? Well, no, Mother, to tell the truth I didn't care much. That old German is so hard and the words all break up so foolishly—somehow it didn't seem very important to me this morning. And Fanny Shrewsbury said something awfully funny about it under her breath and we got laughing and—no, I wasn't especially disturbed."