But I must not say any more about the Lewisham house.

It is only the pleasures of memory, and nothing to do with being beavers, or any sort of exploring.
I think Dora and Daisy are the kind of girls who will grow up very good, and perhaps marry missionaries.

I am glad Oswald's destiny looks at present as if it might be different.
We made two expeditions to discover the source of the Nile (or the North Pole), and owing to their habit of sticking together and doing dull and praiseable things, like sewing, and helping with the cooking, and taking invalid delicacies to the poor and indignant, Daisy and Dora were wholly out of it both times, though Dora's foot was now quite well enough to have gone to the North Pole or the Equator either.

They said they did not mind the first time, because they like to keep themselves clean; it is another of their queer ways.

And they said they had had a better time than us.