"How long has she been this way, girls ?" "Make fun of me if you wish.

I am used to it." "I agree with Emma that there is much in nature that we might do well to consider, suggestions that it would be to our everlasting advantage to adopt," spoke up Tom Gray.

"So far, however, as being able to read the notes of the birds or the growl of a bull pup--piffle!" "I agree with you," nodded Elfreda.
"Emma, where do you get all that dope ?" questioned Hippy.

"I am beginning to believe what I suspected last season, when you were riding that 'con-centration' hobby, that your war service has unbalanced your mind." "No, no! He is only joking, Emma," protested Nora.
"It matters little to me what Hippy Wingate says or thinks.

I belong to the 'Voice of Nature Cult.'" "What's that?
A breakfast food ?" laughed Anne.
"The 'Cult' is an organization of advanced thinkers, presided over by Madam Gersdorff, an adept who can converse with the birds of the air, the animals and--" "I wish she were here," declared Hippy with emphasis.