"Bring me a present some time," said Mabel.
"I will."
"Well, if you say you will, you will—I know that," said Mabel.
"Leggo," said their mother, "leggo. That little automobile out there is waiting for her. Tell Moses to get off that front seat and come back into the house. I don't know where the boy's manners is. I ain't never seen any sign of them."
"Oh, dear!" said Elizabeth, as she drove away with Buddy, "it doesn't seem as if anybody with so little intelligence could be so selfish as that Mis' Steppe is. It saddens me every time I go there. I know I've had a funny call, but it doesn't seem funny to me. It never does."
"Now, you want to be dropped at Peggy's, don't you?"
"Yes, please."
"Give Peggy my love and tell her to keep us informed about her sister."
"I guess you've kept informed about her ever since she left."
"A little additional information at times won't do any harm. I don't want her to spring anything on me—like getting out of the country."