AUNT HANNAH SPEAKS HER MIND Bertram said that the Strata was not a strata any longer.

He declared that between them, Billy and Spunk had caused such an upheaval that there was no telling where one stratum left off and another began.

What Billy had not attended to, Spunk had, he said.
"You see, it's like this," he explained to an amused friend one day.
"Billy is taking piano lessons of Cyril, and she is posing for one of my heads.

Naturally, then, such feminine belongings as fancy-work, thread, thimbles, and hairpins are due to show up at any time either in Cyril's apartments or mine--to say nothing of William's; and she's in William's lots--to look for Spunk, if for no other purpose.
"You must know that Spunk likes William's floor the best of the bunch, there are so many delightful things to play with.

Not that Spunk stays there--dear me, no.