"Well!" the Others cried, "you look as though you had had a lively time."
"I could have told you exactly what his Reverence would say and saved you the trouble of a row."
I tried to squash Jim with a look, but nothing under many hundredweights could do that. So I said coldly,
"We had no row; and little boys don't always know what their elders will say."
"Bet you I know what he said to you. And on the whole I agree with him. It's no use taking a bigger bite than you can chew."
"It isn't a bigger bite than—Jim, you are very vulgar! But I don't care now, I have given up the garden."
"Resigned your stewardship!" said Jim, tragically. "Anything over of the five pounds? I wouldn't retire yet, you can't have saved enough."
"Don't talk nonsense, Mary. At least, it doesn't matter what you talk, you can't do it," said one of the Others.
"Can't I? we shall see," hardening my heart.
"What did his Reverence say to your resignation?"