She's got an uncommonly strong will of her own." "Well, don't try and restrain her, dear, too much," laughed her husband.
"After all she's twenty, she'll be twenty-one directly.

She may not be more than a twelvemonth with us.

She need not be, as far as my functions are concerned.

Let's make friends with her and make her happy." "I don't want my girls talked about, thank you, Ewen!" His wife gave an angry dig to the word "my." "Everybody says what a nice ladylike girl Alice is.

But Nora often gives me a deal of trouble--and if she takes to imitating Connie, and wanting to go about without a chaperon, I don't know what I shall do.