"But I don't see why you tried it on us," said Elizabeth.
"I don't see why we did, either, except that we wanted to know you the most of any girls."
"I don't like to have a boy make me feel that he thinks I am a girl he can scrape acquaintance with," Elizabeth said. "It hurts my feelings."
"I wouldn't hurt your feelings for anything, and you ought to know now that I am not the kind of boy that does things like that, except for a lark. Don't you?"
"Don't I what?"
"Know that?"
"Well, then?"
"All right, you can call me Elizabeth."
"Peggy and I have caught more than you have," Bill shouted, as he came up with crawling crabs in his net.