Here Mrs. Dean, who from a room near by had overheard the conversation, came in, and said, "If you cannot obey your teacher, Emma, you must stop taking music-lessons. Miss Laura is quite right; and I am glad to see that she does not yield to your whims. The best way in learning is always to learn one thing thoroughly before passing to another."
Emma gave up the point, and began to play the exercise with a good grace. She did so well, that, when she had played it over thirty times, Miss Laura said to her, "That will do for today. We will take it up again in our next lesson. Now we will pass to a new piece."
But Mrs. Dean said, "You have done enough today, my children. Now go and pick some strawberries for yourselves in the garden, and then we will take a walk in the grove."
And this is what they did.

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