"Isn't it jolly?
Such a fresh old place! Lots of strawberries--glad you'll see it in the long days--give me a kiss, Loftie--I'm hungry for a kiss!" "You're as wild an imp as ever," said Loftus, pinching her cheek, but stooping and kissing her, nevertheless, with decided affection.

"Why did you put yourself out of breath, Kitty?
Catch May setting her precious little heart a-beating too fast for any fellow! Ah, here you come, lazy Mabel.

Where is the mater?
In the house, I suppose?
I say, Kate, what a hole you have pitched upon for living in?
I positively couldn't ride down upon the thing they offered me at the station.

It wasn't even _clean_.

Look at it, my dear girls! It holds my respectable belongings, and not me.