"Always jump in before you think,—that is, if I'm around. If there's any danger of drowning, I'll pull you out."
"Oh, I can swim. Kit, I don't see how you knew I wrote that letter."
"Patty, it was plain as day on the face of it. Why, it sounded just like you from start to finish. Of course, if you had been in New York, I should have tried to suspect somebody else, but when I found you were staying only about six miles from Maple Bank, I knew it was you."
"Never mind, some day I'll play a joke on you."
"Thought you didn't approve of them."
"I don't, for other people. But you're so fond of them I feel as if I ought to do all I can for you."
"All right, joke away, little girl. I don't mind. I say, Poppycheek, what's this May-day business? An old-fashioned picnic?"
"Not exactly. It's a new-fashioned picnic. But they crown a May-queen, and all that sort of foolishness." "And who is to be queen?"
"Belle Harcourt."
"MY Belle! Oh, I'm glad of that. And so Princess Poppycheek is going to be made a queen! Well, so long as you're my Belle, you may be anybody's queen you like."