There are six of us besides Father.

Our Mother is dead, and if you think we don't care because I don't tell you much about her you only show that you do not understand people at all.
Dora is the eldest.

Then Oswald--and then Dicky.

Oswald won the Latin prize at his preparatory school--and Dicky is good at sums.

Alice and Noel are twins: they are ten, and Horace Octavius is my youngest brother.