You could have laid a sixpence on them quite safely if you had had one.
'Never mind,' said Noel; 'I've got a lot of money.

Come out and have a ride now.' But the little girl shook her head and said she was afraid it would not be correct.
Dora said she was quite right; then all of a sudden came one of those uncomfortable times when nobody can think of anything to say, so we sat and looked at each other.

But at last Alice said we ought to be going.
'Do not go yet,' the little girl said.

'At what time did they order your carriage ?' 'Our carriage is a fairy one, drawn by griffins, and it comes when we wish for it,' said Noel.
The little girl looked at him very queerly, and said, 'That is out of a picture-book.' Then Noel said he thought it was about time he was married if we were to be home in time for tea.

The little girl was rather stupid over it, but she did what we told her, and we married them with Dora's pocket-handkerchief for a veil, and the ring off the back of one of the buttons on H.O.'s blouse just went on her little finger.
Then we showed her how to play cross-touch, and puss in the corner, and tag.