This is a fine red one, is it not, miss?
Especially fine, don't you think?
The trouble with the red variety is that they're apt to get "bobby" and have to be washed regularly; quite bobby they do get indeed, I assure you.

That white one has just gone out of blossom, and it was really wonderful.

You could 'ardly have told it from a paper flower, miss, not from a white paper flower.

My plants are my children nowadays, since Albert Edward is my only care.

I have been the mother of eleven children, miss, all of them living, so far as I know; I know nothing to the contrary.