Are you all right?
Shut your eyes if you like.

I'm going pretty fast." "Where to ?" said Griselda.
"To Phil, of course," said the cuckoo.

"What a bad memory you have! Are you comfortable ?" "_Very_, thank you," replied Griselda, giving the cuckoo's neck an affectionate hug as she spoke.
"That'll do, thank you.

Don't throttle me, if it's quite the same to you," said the cuckoo.

"Here goes--one, two, three," and off he flew again.
Griselda shut her eyes and lay still.