What have you got now, Biddy?
_Nelly's Teachers_ ?" "Oh, that," said Jean, getting pink--"that's a book I had when I was a child, and I still like it so much that I read it through every year." "Oh, Jean, you babe!" Pamela cried.

"Can you actually still read goody-goody girls' stories ?" "Yes," said Jean defiantly, "and enjoy them too." "And why not ?" asked Lord Bidborough.

"I enjoy _Huckleberry Finn_ as much now as I did when I was twelve; and I often yearn after the books I had as a boy and never see now.

I used to lie on my face poring over them.

_The Clipper of the Clouds_, and _Sir Ludar_, and a fairy story called _Rigmarole in Search of a Soul_, which, I remember, was quite beautiful, but can't lay hands on anywhere." Jean looked at him gratefully, and thought to herself that he wasn't going to be a terrifying person after all.