What should you do, Tom ?" Tom paused, and at last turned away contemptuously, saying, "But the lion _isn't_ coming.

What's the use of talking ?" "But I like to fancy how it would be," said Maggie, following him.
"Just think what you would do, Tom." "Oh, don't bother, Maggie! you're such a silly.

I shall go and see my rabbits." Maggie's heart began to flutter with fear.

She dared not tell the sad truth at once, but she walked after Tom in trembling silence as he went out, thinking how she could tell him the news so as to soften at once his sorrow and his anger; for Maggie dreaded Tom's anger of all things; it was quite a different anger from her own.
"Tom," she said, timidly, when they were out of doors, "how much money did you give for your rabbits ?" "Two half-crowns and a sixpence," said Tom, promptly.
"I think I've got a great deal more than that in my steel purse upstairs.

I'll ask mother to give it you." "What for ?" said Tom.