But don't expect too much of us! I say we are not reformers.

They rise up amongst us now and again; but we don't encourage them, we don't encourage them.
We are a privileged caste of medicine men, whose 'mysteries' are protected by the faith of those to whom we minister, a faith fortified by ignorance and fear.

I wish you good-morning, Madam." Margery has often repeated this to me.

We call it "Dr.Brown's Speeches." She is very fond of spouting speeches, much longer ones than Dr.Brown's.

She learns them by heart out of history books, and then dresses up and spouts them to me in our attic.
Margery says she did not understand at the time what they were quarrelling about; and when, afterwards, she asked Grandmamma what a cesspool was, Grandmamma was cross with her too, and said it was a very coarse and vulgar word, and that Dr.Brown was a very coarse and vulgar person.