12/43 She said, Drat you!' and 'Drabbit you!' The last is a thing I have never heard said before. Drat your antics! And that poor, dear, patient gentleman right underneath, with his headache and his handwriting: and you rampaging about over his head like young bull-calves. I wonder you haven't more sense, a great girl like you.' She said this to Alice, and Alice answered gently, as we are told to do-- 'I really am awfully sorry; we forgot about the headache. Don't be cross, Mrs Pettigrew; we didn't mean to; we didn't think.' 'You never do,' she said, and her voice, though grumpy, was no longer violent. 'Why on earth you can't take yourselves off for the day I don't know.' We all said, 'But may we ?' She said, 'Of course you may. |