Come, come, hurry! I mean what I say," she added warningly, as she saw unmistakable signs of rebellion on the small young face.
"I wish," pouted little Kate, rising reluctantly, and moving toward the door, "that you didn't always send me away just when I wanted most to stay!" "Well, Kate ?" prompted Billy, as the door closed behind the little girl.
"Yes, I suppose I'll have to say it now, as long as that child has put her finger in the pie.

But I hadn't intended to speak, no matter what I saw.

I promised myself I wouldn't, before I came.

I know, of course, how Bertram and Cyril, and William, too, say that I'm always interfering in affairs that don't concern me--though, for that matter, if my own brother's affairs don't concern me, I don't know whose should! "But, as I said, I wasn't going to speak this time, no matter what I saw.

And I haven't--except to William, and Cyril, and Aunt Hannah; but I suppose somewhere little Kate got hold of it.