"I only thought that you might possibly induce her to humbug herself." The Twins looked at him doubtfully: there seemed to them more in his words than met the ear.
"You must be wanting your dinner dreadfully," said Mrs.Dangerfield.
"And I'm afraid there's very little for you.

But I'll make you an omelette." "I can not dine amid this yowling," said Sir Maurice firmly, waving his hand over the vocal baskets.

"These animals must be placed out of hearing, or I shan't be able to eat a morsel." "We'll put them in the cats' home," said the Terror quickly.

"I'll just put on a pair of thick gloves.

Wiggins' father--he's a higher mathematician, you know, and understands all this kind of thing--says that hydrophobia is very rare among cats.