"It's so cosy here with you--and you ought to have said it sooner--and anyhow, I won't."
"Jump up!"
"Oh, Cyril, that hurts!"
"Of course, it hurts."
"It's wicked to pinch as hard as that."
"It's wickeder not to say your prayers."
"Oh, Cyril, don't, don't!"
"Jump up, then."
"I'm not in the right frame of mind now--you have pinched it all away.--All right, all right, don't--I'll do it! Though I don't think a pinch-prayer would be as good as a real one. Do you?"
"This is the prayer-rush time--God won't notice it."