How should you ?" "I know that if I didn't speak you'd let everything slip through your fingers.

There's Mr.Twentyman.Kate, open the door." Kate, who was fond of Mr.Twentyman, rushed up and opened the front door at once.

In saying so much of Kate, I do not mean it to be understood that any precocious ideas of love were troubling that young lady's bosom.

Kate Masters was a jolly bouncing schoolgirl of fifteen, who was not too proud to eat toffy, and thought herself still a child.

But she was very fond of Lawrence Twentyman, who had a pony that she could ride, and who was always good-natured to her.