‘It wasn’t Aunt Jane.’
‘No, but it was somebody.’
‘Everybody does marry somebody; but it is no use for us to think about it, for it always turns out just the contrary to all the books one ever read; so there’s no going by anything, and I don’t believe it right to talk about it.’
‘Why not? Every one does.’
‘All the good teachings say one should not talk of what one does not want one’s grown-ups to hear.’
‘Oh, but then one would never talk of anything!’
‘Oh, Val! I won’t be sure, but I don’t believe I should mind mamma’s hearing all I say.’
‘Yes; but you’ve never been to school, and I heard Bee Varley say she never saw anybody so childishly simple for her age.’
This brought the colour into Mysie’s face, but she said—
‘I’d rather be simple than talk as mamma does not like; and, Val, do on no account tell Gillian.’