Can we go this evening after tea ?" "Oh yes," said Becky, "they're just close by your house.

Does your mother let you go in the water ?" Now Becky said a great many of these words very funnily, so that Milly could hardly understand her.

She said "doos" and "oop," and "knaw," and "jist," and "la-ike," but it sounded quite pretty from her soft little mouth, and Milly thought she had a very nice way of talking.
"No, mother doesn't let us go in the water here, at least, not unless it's very warm.

We paddle when we go to the sea, and some day father says we may have our bath in the river if it's very fine." "We never have a bath in the river," said Becky, looking very much astonished at the idea.
"Do you have your bath in the nursery like we do ?" asked Milly.
"We haven't got a nursery," said Becky, staring at her, "mother puts us in the toob on Saturday nights.

I don't mind it but Tiza doesn't like it a bit.