Your list of cousins is a very long one, and even if there were room for them in the house, the care and responsibility of such a house party would be enough to land you in a sanitarium when it was over, if not before." "There are an awful lot of them," said Patty.
"And they're not altogether congenial," said her father.

"Although I haven't seen them as lately as you have, yet I can't help thinking, from what you told me, that the Barlows and the St.Clairs would enjoy themselves better if they visited here at different times, and I'm sure the same is true of your Boston cousins." "You're right," said Patty, "as you always are, and I don't believe I'd have much fun with all that company at once, either.

So I think we'll have them in detachments, and first I'll just invite Ethelyn and Reginald down for a week or two.

I don't really care much about having them, but Ethelyn has written so often that she wants to come that I don't see how I can very well get out of it." "If she wants to come, you certainly ought to ask her.

You visited there three months, you know." "Yes, I know it, and they were very kind to me.