If you don't know it already, there's no need to talk of it." "I understand, and I don't think you can tell me anything I'm not well aware of." "Sure, then, I will tell you, and if there's another girl as brave and honest as Sally in all this worruld, I'll be obliged if you'll make me acquainted with her! Well, you know she has a Saturday afternoon off every month.

It hasn't been a very cheerful day, but it couldn't be missed; and, as it was too rainy to walk about, I couldn't think of any better place to go to than the British Museum.

Of course I wanted to find a quiet corner, but there were people about everywhere, and the best we could manage was in the mummy-room.

We looked at all the mummies, and I told her all I knew about them, and I kept thinking to myself: Now, how can I work round to it?
I've tried so often, you know, and she's always escaped me, somehow, and I couldn't help thinking it was because I hadn't gone about it in the proper way.

Well, we'd been staring at a mummy for about a quarter of an hour, and neither of us said anything, when all at once a rare idea came into my head.