"Won't I take care of you just!"
"That's what I want, Essie! That's what I want!"
"Quiet as you like, dear. I shan't mind.".
"Essie, I'll make you happy—happy."
"Just think of Mother and Dad when we tell them! They aren't half fond of you, Mother and Dad."
The beginning of it. "We won't tell them—yet," he said.
"What, have a secret?"
"Just for a day or two—just till Whitecliffe."
"Oh, isn't that fine, though, to have it a secret by ourselves!"
"Fine, Essie."