She had crowded it in between two belonging to other girls, and by the time her breakfasters came up she was ready for their order, with the pouting pretence that the girls always tried to rob her of the best places.
Burnamy explained proudly, when she went, that none of the other girls ever got an advantage of her; she had more custom than any three of them, and she had hired a man to help her carry her orders.

The girls were all from the neighboring villages, he said, and they lived at home in the winter on their summer tips; their wages were nothing, or less, for sometimes they paid for their places.
"What a mass of information!" said March.

"How did you come by it ?" "Newspaper habit of interviewing the universe." "It's not a bad habit, if one doesn't carry it too far.

How did Lili learn her English ?" "She takes lessons in the winter.

She's a perfect little electric motor.
I don't believe any Yankee girl could equal her." "She would expect to marry a millionaire if she did.