If your step-mother had been at home I feel sure it would not have happened.

She would never have permitted the excursion to take place." The girl's dark brows drew together in their own peculiar manner.
"Let us be honest," she suggested.

"You know quite well that my step-mother would not have bothered about it in the least." "I feel it my duty," went on the minister, "to tell you that there were some peculiar features in connection with the disablement of the motor.
I understand from the mechanician who accompanied Dr.Callandar to the spot for the recovery of the machine that there was really very little the matter.

A short ten minutes completed the necessary repairs." "Ten minutes?
Oh, how silly he must have felt--the doctor I mean.

After all the hours he spent and the things he said." She laughed with reminiscent amusement.