You're awfully good, Aunt Isabel, to give me such a lovely room, and to spend so much thought and time arranging it for me." "And money, too," said her aunt, smiling.

"That rug in your room, Patricia, cost four hundred dollars." "Did it really ?" said Patty, with such a look of amazement, almost horror, that they all laughed.
You see, Patty had never been used to such expensive rugs, still less had she been accustomed to hearing the prices of things mentioned so freely.
"Oh, Aunt Isabel, I'd rather not have it then.

Really, I'd much rather have a cheaper one.

Suppose I should spoil it in some way." "Nonsense, my dear, spoil it if you like, I'll buy you another," said Uncle Robert, grandly.
"Never mind rugs," interrupted Reginald.

"I say, mother, aren't you going to give a party for Patricia ?" "Yes, I think so," answered his mother, "but I haven't decided yet what kind of an affair it shall be." "Oh, have a smashing big party, and invite everybody." "No, Reginald," said Ethelyn, "I hate those big parties, they're no fun at all.