"Oh, don't leave me in the dark! I'll take the punishment, if we are found out." "On your sacred word of honor ?" Emily stipulated.
"Yes--yes." The queen's sense of humor was tickled.
"There's something funny," she remarked, addressing her subjects, "in a big girl like this coming to a new school and beginning with a punishment.

May I ask if you are a foreigner, Miss de Sor ?" "My papa is a Spanish gentleman," Francine answered, with dignity.
"And your mamma ?" "My mamma is English." "And you have always lived in the West Indies ?" "I have always lived in the Island of St.Domingo." Emily checked off on her fingers the different points thus far discovered in the character of Mr.de Sor's daughter.

"She's ignorant, and superstitious, and foreign, and rich.

My dear (forgive the familiarity), you are an interesting girl--and we must really know more of you.

Entertain the bedroom.