"It's too hot to run. Sit down and amuse your deserted brother, whom hashad no society but bees and lizards for an hour."

He drew her down as he spoke, and Bella obeyed; for, in spite of hisindolence, he was one to who all submitted without dreaming of refusal.

"What have you been doing? Muddling your poor little brains with allmanner of elegant rubbish?"

"No, I've been enjoying myself immensely. Jean is _so_ interesting, sokind and clever. She didn't bore me with stupid grammar, but just talkedto me in such pretty French that I got on capitally, and like it as Inever expected to, after Lucia's dull way of teaching it."

"What did you talk about?"