“Serephine, you’re eating nothing at all.”
“I shall wait for the patisserie, Sir Oliver.”
“Disgraceful.”
“Father Francis forbids me meat; it’s a little novena he makes me do.”
“‘The great Jaw-waw that rules our land,
And pearly Indian sea,
Has not such ab-solute command
As thou hast over me,
With a Jimminy, Gomminy, Gomminy,
Jimminy, Jimminy, Gomminy, whee.’”