"Because she has a wart?
Don't you know it's good luck to have warts ?" "Because--because she was bad and had to stay after school," Pepsy said.
"That shows how much you know about logic," Pee-wee said, "because I had to stay too and I was worse than she was.

So there." "I wouldn't be afraid to get in a boat," Pepsy said proudly.
"I never said she was like you," Pee-wee declared.

"She's not a tomboy." Pepsy seemed comforted.
"You leave that feller to me," Pee-wee said.

"I can handle Roy Blakeley and all his patrol and they're a lot of jolliers--they think they're so smart." "I like you better than all of them," Pepsy said.

"Sometimes I'm kept after school too, you can ask Miss Bellison." "One thing sure, I like you well enough to be partners with you," Pee-wee said.