Dora had to go to Blackheath to see an old lady, a friend of Father's, so she couldn't go.

Alice said _she_ ought to go, because it said, 'Ladies _and_ gentlemen,' and perhaps the G.B.wouldn't let us have the money unless there were both kinds of us.
H.O.said Alice wasn't a lady; and she said _he_ wasn't going, anyway.
Then he called her a disagreeable cat, and she began to cry.
But Oswald always tries to make up quarrels, so he said-- 'You're little sillies, both of you!' And Dora said, 'Don't cry, Alice; he only meant you weren't a grown-up lady.' Then H.O.said, 'What else did you think I meant, Disagreeable ?' So Dicky said, 'Don't be disagreeable yourself, H.O.Let her alone and say you're sorry, or I'll jolly well make you!' So H.O.said he was sorry.

Then Alice kissed him and said she was sorry too; and after that H.O.gave her a hug, and said, 'Now I'm _really and truly_ sorry,' So it was all right.
Noel went the last time any of us went to London, so he was out of it, and Dora said she would take him to Blackheath if we'd take H.O.So as there'd been a little disagreeableness we thought it was better to take him, and we did.

At first we thought we'd tear our oldest things a bit more, and put some patches of different colours on them, to show the G.B.how much we wanted money.

But Dora said that would be a sort of cheating, pretending we were poorer than we are.