"Of course, Mother will give her anything she wants." "It isn't silly," said Jeremy.

"Perhaps she'll want more than she really wants.

I often do." "Oh, you!" said Helen.
"And if for ever so long," said Jeremy, "she hasn't had enough to eat, she'll want twice as big meals now as other people--to make up." "Mother says we've got to remember she's a lady," said Helen.
"What's the difference," asked Jeremy, "between a lady and not a lady ?" "Oh, you are!" said Helen.

"Why, Aunt Amy's a lady, and Rose isn't." "Rose is nicer," said Jeremy.
Miss Jones had, I am sorry to say, lied to Mrs.Cole in one particular.
She had told her that "she had had to do with children all her life," the fact being that on several occasions some little cousins had come to stay with herself and her brother.

On these occasions the little cousins had been so paralysed with terror that discipline had not been difficult.