Didn't you give it a name?
May I give it one then?
May I call it--let me see--Bonny would do--may I call it Bonny while I'm here?
Oh, do let me!" "Goodness, I don't care.

But where on earth is the sense of naming a geranium ?" "Oh, I like things to have handles even if they are only geraniums.

It makes them seem more like people.

How do you know but that it hurts a geranium's feelings just to be called a geranium and nothing else?
You wouldn't like to be called nothing but a woman all the time.

Yes, I shall call it Bonny.