If you ever get sulky with me again, or call me Miss Wylie, I will kill you.

I will tickle the soles of your feet with a feather," (Miss Lindsay shuddered, and hid her feet beneath the chair) "until your hair turns white.

And now, if you are truly repentant, come and record." "You must record first.

It was all your fault." "But I am the youngest," said Agatha.
"Well, then," said Gertrude, afraid to press the point, but determined not to record first, "let Jane Carpenter begin.

She is the eldest." "Oh, of course," said Jane, with whimpering irony.