I've got into hot water all round.

Nobody will believe I'm seriously sorry, though it's a fact for all that.

Don't be hard on me, Molly, I say!" There was a note of genuine pleading in the last words that induced her to relent a little.
"Oh, well, I'll forgive you for the skirt," she said.

"I suppose boys can't help being mischievous, though you are nearly old enough to know better." She looked at him as she said it.

His face was comically penitent.
Somehow she could not quarrel with the lurking smile in his merry eyes.
He was certainly a boy.