Edith Nesbit 
The Incomplete Amorist 

A gentle tale of romance and art from a noted children’s author . . . ‚He asked idle questions: she answered them with a conscientious tremulous truthfulness that showed to him as the most finished art. Betty told him nervously and in words ill-chosen everything that he asked to know, but all the while the undercurrent of questions rang strong within her — ‚When is he to teach me? Where? How?‘ — so that when at last there was left but the bare fifteen minutes needed to get one home in time for the midday dinner she said abruptly: ‚And when shall I see you again?‘