"Want to come along?
Or would you rather stay here?
I won't be more than two minutes." She was gone five; and she returned with a preoccupied air which lasted until she had disposed of three chocolates and was carefully choosing a fourth.
"Chicken," she said then, quietly, "do you know anything about your uncle and his affairs ?" And added immediately: "The chances are ten to one you don't, and wouldn't if you lived there till you were gray ?" "I know he's perfectly lovely," Evadna asserted warmly.

"And so is Aunt Phoebe." "To be sure." Miss Georgie smiled indulgently.

"I quite agree with you.
And by the way, I met that polysyllabic cowboy again--and I discovered that, on the whole, my estimate was incorrect.

He's emphatically monosyllabic.

I said sixteen nice things to him while I was waiting for Pete to wake up Saunders; and he answered in words of one syllable; one word, of one syllable.