"Yes, you could do without the haunch, you know, and score off the butcher."
"That's a sound idea. You're not so badly measled as I thought you were."
"Oh," she said, "I shall soon be rid of them altogether."
"To tell you the truth, I wish you'd hurry up."
"Long live the counter-revolution!"
"Oh, as long as you like," I said.
"Have you given the children their medicine and taken their temperatures?"
"I'm just off to do it," I said.
R.C.L.