Era Becky asseguda comodament en un branquet, darrera el casal de l'escola, tot mirant un llibre d'imatges amb Alfred Temple; i tan ataleiats hi estaven, i llurs caps eren tan proxims damunt el llibre, que no semblaven adonar-se de cap cosa del món exterior.
She was sitting cosily on a little bench behind the schoolhouse looking at a picture-book with Alfred Temple--and so absorbed were they, and their heads so close together over the book, that they did not seem to be conscious of anything in the world besides.