I declare I've had to keep my eyes off you, Bunty; you're so fat I keep longing to pick your bones." Her eyes shone with a spark of their old fun, but then she began to cough again, and, after the paroxysm had passed, lay back exhausted.
"Do fetch some of the others," she called faintly, as his head was disappearing.

"You're not much good alone, you know." His head bobbed back a moment, and he tried to smile away the pain her words gave him, for just at that minute he would have died for her without a murmur.
"I'm awf'ly sorry, Judy," he said gently, "but the others are all out.

Wouldn't I do?
I'd do anything, Judy please." Judy disregarded the little sniffle that accompanied the last words, and turned her face to the wall.
Two big tears trickled down again.
"They MIGHT have stayed in," she said with a sob.

"They might have known I should try to come.

Where are they ?" "Pip's gone fishing," he said, "and Nell's carrying the basket for him.