But in five minutes she had forgot all about it.

What was strange was that she liked me a deal better than I did her, and she would never leave me alone; but she was always watching me and running after me, and then saying, "Oh, here you are!" as if it were a surprise.
But soon I found that there was good in her too.

She used sometimes to give me pennies, so that once I had four in my pocket all at the same time; but the best part of her was the stories that she could tell.
She was sore frightened of frogs, so I would bring one to her, and tell her that I would put it down her neck unless she told a story.
That always helped her to begin; but when once she was started it was wonderful how she would carry on.

And the things that had happened to her, they were enough to take your breath away.

There was a Barbary rover that had been at Eyemouth, and he was coming back in five years in a ship full of gold to make her his wife; and then there was a wandering knight who had been there also, and he had given her a ring which he said he would redeem when the time came.