"And did that make you very good directly?"
"If it didn't, it had ought to, Miss Hecla."
"I shouldn't like to be smacked. Auntie Anne doesn't smack me. Look at that big bird. Is it a rook? Why do the rooks say 'Caw' all day long?"
Elisabeth did not know. She supposed it was "their nature."
"I wish it was my nature. I don't see why we shouldn't say 'Caw, caw,' too, when we're happy! Elisabeth—what's a bob?"
"Whatever makes you want to know that, Miss Hecla?"
"I want to know heaps of things. I'd like to know everything. And I've heard people talk about a 'bob.' Somebody one day said he'd got 'two bob.' And somebody else said somebody had 'dropped a bob to the Vicar.' What did they mean?"
"It's a sort of a curtsey, I suppose, Miss Hecla."
"But it can't be that, possibly, you know. Why, you couldn't say a person had got two curtseys. It wouldn't be sense."
"It means money too." Elisabeth refrained from stating the value. "Little ladies don't talk about having two bob."