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She did so at such length that the lunch hour passed before she finished , and a hush fell upon all the babbling voices about , as the monitor came back to her place . Toward the end of the afternoon the monitor 's vigilance relaxed again , and Miss Maybough began to talk again . `` If you want to be anything by the Synthesis standards , '' she said , `` you 've got to keep this up a whole year , you know . '' It was now four o'clock , and Cornelia had been working steadily since eleven , except for the half-hour at lunch-time . `` They 'll see how well you draw ; you need n't be afraid of their not doing that ; and they 'll let you go on to the round at once , perhaps . But if you 're truly Synthetic in spirit , you wo n't want to . You 'll want to get all you can out of the block ; and it 'll take you a year to do that ; then another year for the full length , you know .