I think they plucked up spirit enough to tell their father they didn't like her--which they'd never thought of doing before.

Our own robber says their holidays in the country did them both a great deal of good.

And he says us Bastables have certainly taught Daisy and Denny the rudiments of the art of making home happy.

I believe they have thought of several quite new naughty things entirely on their own--and done them too--since they came back from the Moat House.
I wish you didn't grow up so quickly.

Oswald can see that ere long he will be too old for the kind of games we can all play, and he feels grown-upness creeping inordiously upon him.