While Mary drew, Diana pursued a course of encyclopaedic reading she had (to my awe and amazement) undertaken, and I fagged away at German, he pondered a mystic lore of his own: that of some Eastern tongue, the acquisition of which he thought necessary to his plans.
Mientras Mary dibujaba, Diana seguía un curso de lecturas enciclopédicas que había emprendido con gran asombro mío, y yo me afanaba en el alemán. John estudiaba una lengua oriental, que creía necesaria para el desarrollo de sus planes.