"Yes, all day."
"Und all night?"
"Yes, dear."
"Oh, poor Miss Bailey," crooned Eva. "It could to be a awful sickness what you had."
"No, I was very well. I lived in the country because my father had a house there, and I played all day in the garden."
"Weren't you scared of the lions?" asked Patrick in incredulous admiration.
"We had no lions," Miss Bailey explained apologetically. "But we had rabbits and guinea pigs and a horse and a cow and chickens and ducks and—and—"
"Und eleflints," Morris suggested hope-fully.
"No, we had no elephants," Teacher was forced to admit. "But we had a turtle and a monkey."
"Did your papa have a organ?" asked Sadie Gonorowsky. "Organs mit monkeys is stylish for mans."