"Can't," said Peggy. "It's wrong to keep on sayin' the same thing."
"I never heard that before," said Noel.
"It's in the Bible," asserted Peggy.
"Is it?" Noel sounded faintly incredulous.
"Yes, it is." There was a touch of indignation in Peggy's rejoinder.
"It's what the heathen do," she said.
Noel ventured to open his eyes, and found hers fixed severely upon him.
"Well, I'm awfully sorry," he said. "What had we better do?"
"You're not sorry," said Peggy accusingly. "Your eyes are all laughy."
"I'll swear they're not," declared Noel. "But I say, hadn't you better finish? Then we can have a cuddle."
"But I can't finish," said Peggy.
"Why not?"