"That's why we came off.

Do you know my Aunt Sally Tylah ?" "Well, slightly!" chuckled the Colonel.

"She was my wife's half-sister.
So you don't like her, eh?
Well, I don't like her either." He threw back his head and laughed heartily.

The more the child talked the more entertaining he found her.

He did not remember when he had ever been so amused before as he was by this tiny counterpart of himself.
When the last berry had vanished, she slipped down from the tall chair.
"Do you 'pose it's very late ?" she asked, in an anxious voice.