"You did? What was it?"
"A——I don't know what to call it. I'll tell you, and then you'll know." She nestled her golden head against the doctor's shoulder, and looked up in his face. "I was jumping in the cellar one day with Ida Miller, and I made a tree-men-jus jump, and I said, 'Oh, Ida, I made a jump right smite the javelin.' Don't you fink that's fine? I have said it over lots of times, 'cause I like the way it sounds, somefing like the Bible, you know."
"I think it is one of the most grandiloquent phrases I ever heard. You do not know how I admire it."
"Do you, really?"
"Yes, really."
"Then, I'm glad I told you. Now, I'll tell you somefing else. It's a secret, but Lily said I might tell you. She won't let me tell mamma. It's about Bill. Do you want to hear it?"
"Very much."
"And you won't tell?"
"No."