Is Aunt Eliza in?
I hope she is, because I want some tea." "She is.

But I'd give you tea if she wasn't." "And set the whole of St.Wennys gossiping! It wouldn't be proper, boy." "Oh, yes, it would.

I count as a kind of cousin, you know." "All the same, Mrs.Petherick at the lodge would confide the information that we'd had tea alone together to Miss Penwarne at the Post Office, and in half an hour the entire village would be all agog to know when the subsequent elopement was likely to occur." Sandy grinned.

He had proposed to Nan several times already, only to be good-naturedly turned down.
"I'd supply a date with pleasure." Nan shook her head at him.
"A man may not marry his grandmother." He struck a match and held it while she lit her cigarette.

Then, blowing out the flame, he enquired: "Does that apply when she's only three years his senior ?" "Oh, Sandy, I'm aeons older than you.