"He is delightful!" "I don't like to look stupid," said Letty.
"I shouldn't mind how stupid I looked so long as I was learning," returned Mary.

"I wonder you never told me about him!" "I couldn't talk about Cousin Godfrey," said Letty; and a pause followed.
"How good of him to come to us again!" said Mary.

"What will he read to us ?" "Most likely something out of a book you never heard of before, and can't remember the name of when you have heard it--at least that's the way with me.

I wonder if he will talk to you, Mary?
I should like to hear how Cousin Godfrey talks to girls." "Why, you know how he talks to you," said Mary.
"Oh, but I am only Cousin Letty! He can talk anyhow to me." "By your own account he talks to you in the best possible way." "Yes; I dare say; but--" "But what ?" "I can't help wishing sometimes he would talk a little nonsense.

It would be such a relief.