"I almost think so," agreed Helen.
"Let me tell you something, you scoffers——"
"Tell on; that's what we're waiting for."
"Well, on the whole, I guess I won't tell you a thing about it."
"If you aren't the very meanest boy I ever knew in my life," decided Margaret whole-heartedly. "To work our curiosity all up this way and then not to tell us a thing."
"I didn't get the encouragement that the plan deserved."
"Like all great inventors," commented James.
"They all come out on top at the end, I notice," retorted Roger. "You just watch me about next April when the buds begin to swell."
"Heads begin to swell at any time of year, apparently."
"Especially bad cases begin in the autumn—about September."