This was not the way in which his schoolfellows' sisters had generally addressed him.
"I think you look jolly," he said; "and that's better than looking nice." "I think they mean the same thing," she replied; "except that a girl says 'nice' and a boy says 'jolly.' I like the word 'jolly' best, only I get scolded when I use it.

Shall we go into the garden ?" Altogether Ralph Conway had a very much pleasanter time than he had anticipated.

Except at meals he saw little of the Miss Penfolds.

His opinion as to these ladies, expressed confidentially to Mabel Withers, was the reverse of flattering.
"I think," he said, "that they are the two most disagreeable old cats I have ever met.

They hardly ever open their lips, and when they do it is only to answer some question of their brother.