Mamma says he is petunia--no, I mean peculiar but--but very--re-li-a-ble," the last word conquered after a visible struggle.

"She says if you do what he tells you to you will be 'most always glad.

I think 'always' without any 'most,'" she added.
Major Grover laughed.

"That's a reputation for infallibility worth having," he observed.
Barbara did not know what he meant but she had no intention of betraying that fact.
"Yes," she agreed.

A moment later she suggested: "Don't you think you'd better sit down?
He told you to, you know." "Great Scott, so he did! I must obey orders, mustn't I?
But he told you to talk--something or other to me, I think.