"I hope I've not been in the way, Mary," said Mr.Twentyman, as soon as Morton was out of hearing.
"In the way of what ?" "I didn't think there was any harm in offering to go up to the house with you if you were going." "Who has said there was any harm ?" The path was only broad enough for one and she was walking first.

Larry was following her and the girls were behind him.
"I think that Mr.Morton is a very stuck-up fellow," said Kate, who was the last.
"Hold your tongue, Kate," said Mary.

"You don't know what you are talking about." "I know as well as any one when a person is good-natured.

What made him go off in that hoity-toity fashion?
Nobody had said anything to him." "He always looks as though he were going to eat somebody," said Dolly.
"He shan't eat me," said Kate.
Then there was a pause, during which they all went along quickly, Mary leading the way.

Larry felt that he was wasting his opportunity; and yet hardly knew how to use it, feeling that the girl was angry with him.
"I wish you'd say, Mary, whether you think that I did anything wrong ?" "Nothing wrong to me, Mr.Twentyman." "Did I do anything wrong to him ?" "I don't know how far you may be acquainted with him.