The accounts of her life in the bush were like a romance to them, and so fired their enthusiasm that in the intervals of playing soldiers they tried to emulate her adventures, and were found with a clothes-line in the garden making a wild attempt to lasso the much-enduring Toby.
"Rona's very good-natured with them," said Ulyth.

"She doesn't mind how they pull her about, and Peter's most exhausting sometimes.

I shouldn't like to carry him round the house on my back.

Dorothy's perfectly insatiable for stories; it's always 'Tell us another!' How funny Oswald is at present.

He's grown so outrageously polite all of a sudden.