"It's horrid cheek, but when I saw your room full of light I thought you might have been even earlier than I was.

You must get them to give you curtains up here." He had a note in his hand and I thought by his manner there was something that he wished and yet hesitated to tell me.

I accordingly asked him what it was.
"It's what we were speaking about last night!" burst out Bob.

"That's why I've come to you.

It's these silly fools who can't mind their own business and think everybody else is like themselves! Here's a note from Mrs.Lascelles which makes it plain that that old idiot George is not the only one who has been talking about us, and some of the talk has reached her ears.