But if I hadn't, eh ?' He only talks like that when he is very serious, or even angry.

Other times he talks like people in books--to us, I mean.
We none of us said anything.

But I was thinking.

Then Alice spoke.
Girls seem not to mind saying things that we don't say.

She put her arms round Albert-next-door's uncle's neck and said-- 'We're very, very sorry.