"I've had my problems too, but I always made quick work of them.

They never had a chance to overlay me like a mother overlays her baby and kills it." "Not 'like a mother overlays,' but 'as a mother overlays,'" returned Kitty with a queer note to her voice.

"That's what they taught me at school.

The teacher was always picking us up on that kind of thing.

I said a thing worse than that when Mrs.Crozier"-- her fingers motioned towards another room--"came to-day.