Lorna, weren't you to have gone too once before ?" "Yes, and got toothache.

Just like my luck.

There the others were starting off, and I was sitting by the stove with a swollen face, dabbing on belladonna, and Miss Rodgers careering round telling me I must have it out.

Ugh! My ailments always turn up when I'm going anywhere." "Well, you're all right to-day at any rate," consoled Delia, rather unsympathetically.
"If I don't get seasick on the boat." "Oh, buck up! You mustn't.

We'll throw you overboard to the fishes if you do anything so silly.