No one would have believed a word we said.

They'd have thought we were kidding.

We did better than let him see us.

We asked a boy where he lived and he told us, and we went there, and it's a little greengrocer's shop, and we bought some Brazil nuts.
Here they are.' The girls waved away the Brazil nuts with loathing and contempt.
'Well, we had to buy SOMETHING, and while we were making up our minds what to buy we heard his brother's missis talking.

She said when he came home with all them miaoulers she thought there was more in it than met the eye.