You're the squarest girl I ever knew." "Then, don't you think you might do this much for me ?" "What much ?" "Why, just let Hester be Queen for a while." "No, I don't.

That wouldn't be any favor to you." "Yes, it would.

If I ask you, and you refuse, I'll think you're real unkind.

And yet you say you like me!" Marjorie had struck a right chord in the boy's heart.

He didn't want Hester for Queen, but still less did he want to refuse Midget her earnest request.
"Oh, pshaw!" he said, digging his toe in the sand; "if you put it that way, I'll _have_ to say yes.