Of course I mean can grandmother remember her--did she know her?
Supposing anybody's grandmother died before they were born, then they wouldn't ever have had one, would they now ?" Molly sat up on the rug, and tossed back her hair out of her eyes, convinced that her logic was unanswerable.
"You shouldn't begin by saying 'anybody's grandmother,'" remarked Ralph.
"You put anybody in the possessive case, which means, of course, that the grandmother belonged to the anybody, and _then_ you make out that the anybody never had one." Molly retorted by putting her fingers in her ears and shaking her head vehemently at her brother.

"Be quiet, Ralph," she said.

"What's the good of muddling up what I say, and making my head feel _so_ uncomfortable when you know quite well what I _mean_?
Please, grandmother dear, will you go on talking as soon as I take my fingers out of my ears, and then he will have to leave off puzzling me." "And what am I to talk about ?" asked grandmother.
"Tell us about your grandmother.

If you remember things long ago so nicely, you must remember story sort of things of then," said Molly insinuatingly.
"I really don't, my dear child.

Not just at this moment, anyhow." "Well, tell us _about_ your grandmother: what was she like?
was she like you ?" Grandmother shook her head.
"That I cannot say, my dear; I have no portrait of her, nor have I ever seen one since I have been grown up.