What does make you so excited ?" "'Excited!'" he stormed.

"Do you dare to stand there and call me 'excited'?
I tell you, I never have been more calm or calmer in my life! I don't know that a person needs to be called 'excited' because he demands explanations that are his simple due!" "What in the world do you want me to explain ?" "Your conduct with Fred Kinney!" George shouted.
Lucy uttered a sudden cry of laughter; she was delighted.

"It's been awful!" she said.

"I don't know that I ever heard of worse misbehaviour! Papa and I have been twice to dinner with his family, and I've been three times to church with Fred--and once to the circus! I don't know when they'll be here to arrest me!" "Stop that!" George commanded fiercely.

"I want to know just one thing, and I mean to know it, too!" "Whether I enjoyed the circus ?" "I want to know if you're engaged to him!" "No!" she cried and lifting her face close to his for the shortest instant possible, she gave him a look half merry, half defiant, but all fond.