The moment Corny mentioned her she was elected emissary.
We determined, however, to be very cautious in disclosing our plans to her.

We would sound her, first, and make a regular engagement with her.
"It will be a first-rate thing for me," said Corny, "to have a girl to go about with me, for mother said, yesterday, that it wouldn't do for me to be so much with boys.

It looked tomboyish, she said, though she thought you two were very good for boys." "Are you going to tell your father and mother about this ?" asked Rectus.
"I think I'll tell mother," said Corny, "because I ought to, and I don't believe she'll object, if I have a girl along with me.

But I don't think I'll say anything to father just yet.

I'm afraid he'd join." Rectus and I agreed that it might be better to postpone saying anything to Mr.Chipperton.
It was very true that the queen did not live in a palace.