Her face was very friendly and her sharp voice unusually gentle as she said...
"We'll never draw that curtain any more, and I give you leave to look as much as you like.

I just wish, though, instead of peeping, you'd come over and see us.

Mother is so splendid, she'd do you heaps of good, and Beth would sing to you if I begged her to, and Amy would dance.

Meg and I would make you laugh over our funny stage properties, and we'd have jolly times.

Wouldn't your grandpa let you ?" "I think he would, if your mother asked him.