I'll ask the ferryman to get half-a-dozen halfpenny buns for tea, if you will be so kind as to lend me threepence.

We don't bake ourselves." "I have had tea, thank you," said Miss Ford.

"I have just come from a little gathering of friends on the other side of the river, and I thought I would call here on my way home.

I had noted your address----" She started as she came in and saw Sarah Brown, and added in her committee voice: "I had noted your address, because I never mind how much trouble I take in following up a promising case." Sarah Brown, on first hearing that trenchant voice, had lost her head and begun to hide under the counter.

But the biscuit-tins refused to make room, so she drew herself up and smiled politely.
"How good of you to go to a little gathering of friends," said the witch, obviously trying to behave like a real human person.