"You must get early to bed, and keep yourselves fresh for all that is before you.

Aunty says _she_ is very hungry, so you little people must be so too.

Yes, dears, you may run downstairs first, and I'll come quietly after you; I am not so young as I have been, you know." Molly looked up with some puzzle in her eyes at this.
"Not so young as you have been, grandmother dear ?" she repeated.
"Of course not," said Ralph.

"And you're not either, Molly.

Once you were a baby in long clothes, and, barring the long clothes, I don't know but what----" "Hush, Ralph.