"I didn't mean--" "Oh! yes, you did.

Not precisely that, perhaps, but pretty near it.

I suppose you expected me to speak like Josiah Badger or Kyan Pepper.

I try not to.

And I try not to say 'immejitly,' too," she added, with a mischievous twinkle.
Ellery recognized the "immejitly" quotation and laughed.
"I never heard but one person say that," he observed.