Presently he got rather interested and suddenly made a suggestion.
"Why don't you put a heap of stones there and pretend it is a rockery ?" he said.

"There in the middle," and he leaned over her to point.
"Go away!" cried Mary.

"I don't want boys.

Go away!" For a moment Basil looked angry, and then he began to tease.

He was always teasing his sisters.