It's so queer she should disapprove of me, and approve of my Aunt Blanche, isn't it ?" He got up, and going to the door, shut it.
"Lock it!" she called out.

"Lock it, Bill! I don't want to be disturbed;" she repeated in an odd voice, "I've something very important to say to you." But this time he did not obey her, and as he came back towards the bed he said anxiously, "D'you still feel _very_ bad, Bubbles ?" There was a tone of great tenderness and solicitude in his voice.
"Of course I do.

So would you, if you'd died and come to life again." "You didn't do that," he said in a low voice.

"But you were very nearly drowned, Bubbles.

However, we must try to forget it." Again she mimicked him: "'We must try to forget it.' I was waiting for you to say that, too.