I wish we had forty miles to go.

Nothing makes me feel so larky as the sound of sleighbells." Phil glanced back over his shoulder.

"It is a bare mile and a half to the house, but I told Eugenia I'd bring you home the roundabout way to make the drive longer, if you all were not cold.

What do you say ?" "The long way by all means!" cried Joyce and Betty in the same breath.
Phil laughed.

"The ayes have it.