I never had any little brothers and sisters, and I don't know how to treat babies.

I--I'm always afraid they'll break, or something.

I'm just as afraid of the twins as I can be.

How Marie can handle them, and toss them about as she does, I don't see." "Toss them about, indeed!" "Well, it looks that way to me," sighed Billy.

"Anyhow, I know I can never get to handle them like that--and that's no way to feel! And I'm ashamed of myself because I _can't_ be detached and heavenly and absorbed," she added, rising to go.