So I went to the lodge instead and made friends with Brother Manby.

I didn't," said Corona candidly, "make very good weather with Brother Manby, just at first.
He began by asking 'Well, and oo's child might _you_ be ?'--and when I told him, he said, 'Ow's anyone to know _that_ ?' That amused me, of course." "Did it ?" asked Brother Copas in slight astonishment.
"Because," the child explained, "I'd been told that English people dropped their h's; but Brother Manby was the first I'd heard doing it, and it seemed too good to be true.

_You_ don't drop your h's; and nor does Daddy, nor Branny." Brother Copas chuckled.
"Don't reproach us," he pleaded.

"You see, you've taken us at unawares more or less.

But if it really please you--" "You are very kind," Corona put in; "but I guess that sort of thing must come naturally, to be any good.