The Pekes stared.

They understood every word of the mater's.
Biddy lay down with her tongue poked out; she was so fat and glossy she looked like a lump of half-melted toffee.

But Chinny's porcelain eyes gloomed at Reginald, and he sniffed faintly, as though the whole world were one unpleasant smell.

Snip, went the scissors again.

Poor little beggars; they were getting it! "And where are you going, if your mother may ask ?" asked the mater.
It was over at last, but Reggie did not slow down until he was out of sight of the house and half-way to Colonel Proctor's.