I'm sorry." "Nobody could make fun of him," she said quietly.
"Why couldn't they ?" "It wouldn't make him funny: it would only make themselves silly." Upon this, George had a gleam of intelligence.

"Well, I'm not going to make myself silly any more, then; I don't want to take chances like that with you.

But I thought he was the Sharon girls' uncle.

He came with them--" "Yes," she said, "I'm always late to everything: I wouldn't let them wait for me.

We're visiting the Sharons." "About time I knew that! You forget my being so fresh about your father, will you?
Of course he's a distinguished looking man, in a way." Lucy was still serious.