"We've been pretty bad, but not bad enough for that!" "I--Oh, yes, I will.

Stop that noise, Winthrop! Josie, I'm going to lean over you--and you, too, Clemence, baby.

Katie, take those dogs away immediately; and remember about the marmalade." Reassured, smiling through tears, the children trooped off, it being the bathing hour; and Mrs.Gerard threw her fur stole over one shoulder and linked her slender arm in her brother's.
"You see, I'm not much of a mother," she said; "if I was I'd stay here all day and every day, week in and year out, and try to make these poor infants happy.

I have no business to leave them for one second!" "Wouldn't they get too much of you ?" suggested Selwyn.
"Thanks.

I suppose that even a mother had better practise an artistic absence occasionally.