"Please go on!" She went on, with butterfly gaiety.
"I worked hard--really hard--to get you out of your bog.

It was a horrid deep one, wasn't it, Billikins?
My! You were floundering! But I've pulled you out of it and dragged you up the bank a bit.

You don't get sniffed at anything like you used, do you, Billikins?
But I daren't leave you yet--I honestly daren't.

You'd slip right back again directly my back was turned.

And I should have the pleasure of starting the business all over again.