Evelyn, you were a mascot to-day! I hope you'll play up equally well on Saturday.

By the by, Joyce, I really can't compliment you on your innings.

What were you thinking of to make that idiotic blind swipe ?" "I don't know!" returned Joyce dolefully.

(She was sitting on the fence looking decidedly crestfallen.) "I'm afraid I'm rather rocky to-day, somehow." "Got nerves?
Girl alive! Do brace up!" "No, it's not nerves.

My head's been aching all the week, and I've a pain across my chest, and I keep shivering.