“But I simply must know how we all came to be here,” repeated Coppertop, when she had recovered from her excitement.
“It’s awfully strange!”
“Don’t bother about a little thing like that. Girls are funny,” remarked Tibbs, grandly.
“But it isn’t a little thing,” said Coppertop.
“Well, anyhow, you are!”
“’Es, and Tibbs and me is too,” piped up Kiddiwee, “twemendously small!”
“Small, are we?”
“Rather,” assured Tibbs; “why we’re not as large as these snowflakes, see.”
“Good gracious!” exclaimed Coppertop, “so we are! However did it all happen?”
“Oh, don’t bother about that,” said Tibbs again.