When you say 'let us talk' like that, it makes me forget all I wanted to say.

Just let me sit still and say whatever comes into my head." "That won't do," said the cuckoo; "we must have a plan of action." "A what ?" said Griselda.
"You see you _have_ a great deal to learn," said the cuckoo triumphantly.

"You don't understand what I say." "But I didn't come up here to learn," said Griselda; "I can do that down there;" and she nodded her head in the direction of the ante-room table.
"I want to play." "Just so," said the cuckoo; "that's what I want to talk about.

What do you call 'play'-- blindman's-buff and that sort of thing ?" "No," said Griselda, considering.

"I'm getting rather too big for that kind of play.