"Henderson Sattawhite! Of all people! How did you get heah ?" But the boy had no time to waste in talking.

He stuck his thumb in his mouth, looked at her an instant, and then, climbing down from the banister, started to the top of the stairs as fast as his short legs could carry him, for another downward spin.
Lloyd waited for her mother to come up to the step on which she stood, and then said, with a look of concern, "Do you suppose they are all heah, 'Fido' an' all of them?
And that Howl will follow me around as he did on shipboard, beggin' for stories?
It will spoil all my fun with the girls if he does." "'Never trouble trouble till trouble troubles you,'" said her father, playfully pinching her cheek.

"You'll find it easier to escape persecution on land than on shipboard.

Henny didn't seem at all anxious to renew his acquaintance with you.

He evidently finds sliding down bannisters more to his taste.