"We'll do that. These few exercises will wake up every part of the body."
"We ought to do them with the windows open."
"When you first wake up after having the windows wide open all night you don't realize the cold in your room. It isn't until you have been to a warmer room that you notice the cold in your bedroom. So the best time to take these exercises is just the minute you hop out of bed. Stand in front of the open window and take deep breaths of air way down into the very lower tips of your lungs so that every tiny cell will be puffed out with good, fresh oxygen."
"It will take a lot of time to do all those exercises."
"Five minutes every morning will be enough if we do them vigorously. And you mustn't forget that your aim is to catch up with the Ethels."
"And then to beat them. I'll do it."
They went slowly through the cottage and planned the purpose to which they would put each room. It was simply furnished, but all the necessities were there.
"It's more fun this way than if there were a lot of furniture," said Dorothy, "because we can get what is lacking to suit ourselves."
"All the time that we are here we can be making plans for building our own little house."
"I can hardly wait to have it."