Evan Harrington - 22 - Dog-Schooling

Illustration for Chapter 25 of "Evan Harrington." Once a Week, volume 2, page 599. Rose has gone out to do some dog training with her retriever Pat, and her would-be-fiancé Ferdinand Laxley meets up with her.
"Down-charge, Sir, will you? Ah, Pat! Pat! You'll have to obey me, my boy. Now, down-charge!"
While Rose addressed the language of reason to Pat, Ferdinand slipped in a soft word or two. Presently she saw him on one knee.
"Pat won't, and I will," said he.

"But Pat shall, and you had better not," said she. "Besides, my dear Ferdinand," she added, laughing, "you don't know how to do it."