Kitty (to Jem): Oh! nobody knows better how you behave than Porter. Our quarrels are no secret from her.
Jem: That must be your fault. How can she know of them but from you?
Kitty: I tell her nothing. But your voice would reach to the ends of the earth.
Jem: As for yours—why——
Kitty: Grandmamma always said my voice was the most gentle she had ever heard.
Jem: But, then, your grandmother——
Sir W. (to Lady Flo): I really think we had better leave, after all.
Lady Flo (affectionately): No! dearest Will! I really think we had better stay.
Sir W.: For my part——
Lady Flo: I tell you we must stay.