Nobody can help liking her.

She's not so helter-skelter as the others, but down at the Hurly-Burly nobody could help losing their things.

Why, I even grew careless myself." "Well, have your company, child, and I'll do all I can to make it pleasant for you and for them." "I know you will, you dear old pearl of a father.

Sometimes I think you enjoy my company as much as I do myself, but I suppose you don't really.
I suppose you entertain the young people and pretend to enjoy it just to make me happy." "I am happy, dear, in anything that makes you happy; though sixteen is not exactly an age contemporary with my own.

But I enjoy having Hepworth down, and I like young Harper a great deal.