I do not want you to give me anything.

Mother says we ought not to.

And besides, we do not want any THINGS.

Only to talk to you about a Prisoner and Captive.

Your loving little friend, "Bobbie." She got the Station Master to give the letter to the old gentleman, and next day she asked Peter and Phyllis to come down to the station with her at the time when the train that brought the old gentleman from town would be passing through.
She explained her idea to them--and they approved thoroughly.
They had all washed their hands and faces, and brushed their hair, and were looking as tidy as they knew how.