If you hadn't come back I should have told them to-morrow what I had done.

I would have told them before, but I was afraid it would have made them more unhappy.

I thought I had hurt you dreadfully." "So you did," said the cuckoo.
"But you _look_ quite well," said Griselda.
"It was _my feelings_," replied the cuckoo; "and I couldn't help going away.

I have to obey orders like other people." Griselda stared.

"How do you mean ?" she asked.
"Never mind.