"I have answered you truly; I have no other answer to give."
"Will you think and answer me when I come home?"
"I have answered you now."
"Perhaps you will have another answer then."
"Well, if I have I will give it to you. Are you satisfied?"
"No," he said; but he turned her face up to his and looked down into her innocent earnest eyes.
"You are a goosie, as Linnet says; you will never grow up, little
Marjorie."
"Then, if I am only eight, you must not talk to me as if I were eighty."
"Or eighteen," he said. "How far on the voyage of life do you suppose
Linnet and Captain Will are."
"Not far enough on to quarrel, I hope."