Suddenly they twinkled, the lips broke from their straight line into a smile, and a kindly old hand reached out to take him by the arm.
"Don't you stand there and try to tell Mother Howard she don't know what she 's talking about!" came in tones of mock severity.

"Hear me?
Now, you get up them steps and wash up for dinner.

Take the first room on the right.

It's a nice, cheery place.

And get that dust and grime off of you.