She told them stories in broad Yorkshire and taught them new words.

She laughed as if she could not help it when they told her of the increasing difficulty there was in pretending that Colin was still a fretful invalid.
"You see we can't help laughing nearly all the time when we are together," explained Colin.

"And it doesn't sound ill at all.

We try to choke it back but it will burst out and that sounds worse than ever." "There's one thing that comes into my mind so often," said Mary, "and I can scarcely ever hold in when I think of it suddenly.

I keep thinking suppose Colin's face should get to look like a full moon.