But her qualities and those of Leo came to the same thing as far as I was concerned.

I invariably yielded to them both.
Between themselves, I may say, they squabbled systematically, and were never either friends or enemies for two days together.
Polly and I never quarrelled.

I did her behests manfully, as a general rule; and if her sway became intolerable, I complained and bewailed, on which she relented, being as easily moved to pity as to wrath.
As the weather grew more chill, we seldom went out except in the morning.

In the afternoon Polly and I (sometimes accompanied by Leo) played in the nursery at the top of the house.
Now and then the other girls would come up, and "play at dolls" with Polly.

On these occasions the treatment I experienced was certainly hard.