"They look as if they'd peel off easily.

Come on upstairs." The chambers were large, low, and rambling; and the house, in its best days, must have been an interesting specimen of its type.

But after a short investigation, Patty was as firmly convinced as Marian that its charms could not offset its drawbacks.
"I've seen enough of this moated grange," cried Patty.

"Come on, girls, we're going back to tea, right, straight, smack off." "There's no pleasing some folks," grumbled Ethel.

"Here's an ancestral pile only waiting for somebody to ancestralise it.