Yes, I wish to have Lucy at that terrible boarding-school." John laughed.

"Oh, Leila, is that the best you can do ?" "Yes, wish a wish for me, if mine doesn't suit." Then he said, "I wish the school had small-pox and you had to stay at Grey Pine." "I didn't think you'd care as much as that.

Aren't these flowers beautiful?
Wish me a real wish." "Then, I wish that when we grow up you would marry me." "Well, John, you are a silly." She took on an air of authoritative reprimand.

"Why, John, you are only a boy, but you ought to know better than to talk such nonsense." "And you," he said, "are just a little girl." "Oh, I'm not so very little," returned Miss Grey.
"When I'm older, I shall ask you again; and if you say no, I'll ask again--and--until--" "What nonsense, John.

Let's go home." He rose flushed and troubled, and said, "Are you vexed, Leila ?" "No, of course not; but it was foolish of you." He made no reply, in fact hardly heard her.