When she had done everything she could to make Mother less uncomfortable, she went down to the others.

Her cheeks were very red, her lips set tight, and her eyes almost as bright as Mother's.
She told them what the Doctor had said, and what Mother had said.
"And now," said she, when she had told all, "there's no one but us to do anything, and we've got to do it.

I've got the shilling for the mutton." "We can do without the beastly mutton," said Peter; "bread and butter will support life.

People have lived on less on desert islands many a time." "Of course," said his sister.

And Mrs.Viney was sent to the village to get as much brandy and soda-water and beef tea as she could buy for a shilling.
"But even if we never have anything to eat at all," said Phyllis, "you can't get all those other things with our dinner money." "No," said Bobbie, frowning, "we must find out some other way.