Don't you think this is meant for a 'D,' and that one"-- holding out the largest--"without any letter at all, is mine ?" Dan felt so sure of getting his rights that he lay quite undisturbed, throwing bits of moss into the water, and left the others to settle the dispute.
"No, I don't," said Kitty, without the slightest hesitation.
"Dan always has the largest, whether there is a letter on it or not, and you always have the smallest but one." Betty accepted the decision without dispute.

She had really not expected any other, but she liked to assert herself now and then.
"I can't see," she said musingly, "why you should be expected to want less to eat if you are only ten than if you are twelve.

It seems to me so silly.

It isn't your age that makes you hungry." As a rule the others left Betty to find the answer to her own arguments, so she expected none from them.

She got none now.