Of course Laura and Jose were far too grown-up to really care about such things.

All the same, they couldn't help agreeing that the puffs looked very attractive.
Very.

Cook began arranging them, shaking off the extra icing sugar.
"Don't they carry one back to all one's parties ?" said Laura.
"I suppose they do," said practical Jose, who never liked to be carried back.

"They look beautifully light and feathery, I must say." "Have one each, my dears," said cook in her comfortable voice.

"Yer ma won't know." Oh, impossible.