Father told me,' he added, as if apologizing for this piece of information, 'once when I'd been playing with fire.' The lady turned quite pale.
'What a frightful place you must live in!' she said.

'What's all the furniture padded for ?' Anthea asked, hastily turning the subject.
'Why, you couldn't have little tots of two or three running about in rooms where the things were hard and sharp! They might hurt themselves.' Robert fingered the scar on his forehead where he had hit it against the nursery fender when he was little.
'But does everyone have rooms like this, poor people and all ?' asked Anthea.
'There's a room like this wherever there's a child, of course,' said the lady.

'How refreshingly ignorant you are!--no, I don't mean ignorant, my dear.

Of course, you're awfully well up in ancient History.

But I see you haven't done your Duties of Citizenship Course yet.' 'But beggars, and people like that ?' persisted Anthea 'and tramps and people who haven't any homes ?' 'People who haven't any homes ?' repeated the lady.