Only last night Leon had said it would come, yet whoever would have thought that I'd get a chance like this, so soon.
"Ho but they don't!" I cried.

"They fight like anything! Every day they make the feathers fly!" In a backward stroke Miss Amelia's fingers, big and bony, struck my cheek a blow that nearly upset me.

A red wave crossed her face, and her eyes snapped.

I never had been so surprised in all my life.

I was only going to tell her the truth.