We've always appreciated each other so much.

I know you're going to be somebody special.

Maybe it will just be in natural history, but I wish it were exploring, or something awfully adventurous." Billie laughed comfortably, perching himself just below her on the heavy timbers of the old sluice gate.
"Grandfather says I have a great responsibility on my shoulders, because I'm the last of the Ellis family.

He says there's always been an Ellis in the State Legislature at Hartford, ever since there was a Legislature, and just as soon as I'm old enough, he's going to set me to reading law.
Gee, I wish he wouldn't.

Think of being shut up all day long in an office." Far down the lane they heard the others calling them and Kit sprang up, scattering the apples as she did so.
"I'd forgotten all about the party," she exclaimed.