"Are these all the children you've got?"
"No; Minnie-Haha and Danny Deever's inside. They been naughty. They's in bed."
"What on earth did they do?"
"Wouldn't say they prairses last night."
"Oh, how naughty!"
"Yes; I don't love them when they don't say prairses for their daddy."
"Their daddy?"
"Yes; he lives in England. He has been living in England for twenty years. They have never seen him."
"Goodness!"
"Yes; it's very sad." She wagged her head dolefully.