“Was it your penny or mine?”
“Wasn’t nobody’s, only mummy’s. You said they were for her. Charlotte wasn’t naughty.”
“Did you find it on the floor?”
“No.”
“Where then?”
“Dey was all in nice itty rows on the table. I only taken one pitty goldy penny. Mummy gives me goldy pennies always.”
“Sovereigns for playthings, Renata. That’s very immoral.”
“No, only new halfpennies. Charlotte didn’t know any better, Aymer.”
“And you played with it in the window there and left it there.”
“Is I naughty?”