I'll tell them too--" Then he added: "But you won't go away now even if we're not always good?
We won't always be, I suppose; and I'm going to school in September, and it will be better then, I expect.

I'm too old, really, to learn with girls now." She wanted terribly to kiss him, and, had she done so, the whole good work of the last quarter of an hour would have been undone.

He was aware of her temptation; he felt it in the air.

She saw the warning in his eyes.

The moment passed.
"You won't go away, will you ?" he said again.
"Not if you're good," she said.
IV Half an hour later, when Mary and Helen returned from their walk, they were addressed by Jeremy.
"She was crying because we'd been so naughty, and she had pains in her head, and her brother was dead.