Why, you have got stockings on, I declare; but I like you much better without them." "Then, Master Lancelot Yordas Carnaby, you had better go home with all your good things." "You are totally mistaken about that.

I could never get these things into the house again, without being caught out to a certainty.

It shows how little girls know of anything." "A girl can not be expected," she answered, looking most innocently at him, "to understand anything sly or cunning.

Why should anything of that sort be ?" "Well, if it comes to that," cried Pet, who (like all unreasonable people) had large rudiments of reasoning, "why should not I come up to your door, and knock, and say, 'I want to see Miss Insie; I am fond of Miss Insie, and have got something good for her'?
That is what I shall do next time." "If you do, my brother Maunder will beat you dreadfully--so dreadfully that you will never walk home.

But don't let us talk of such terrible things.