"I expected you to come and ask me about that," she said, "for of course you could see through a good deal of it.

It is all father's kindness and goodness.

Percy was a little out of temper when he came back, and he spun a yarn about your being sweet on Mrs.
Chester, and how he could hardly get you away from her, and all that.
He had an idea that you wanted to go there and live, at least for the summer.

Something a boy said to him made him think that.

So father thought that if you had any notions about Mrs.Chester you ought to have the matter placed properly before you without any delay, and I expect his reason for mentioning it at the supper-table was that it might then seem like a general subject of conversation, whereas it would have been very pointed indeed if he had taken you apart and talked to you about it." "Indeed it would," said I."And if you will allow me, I will say that boys are unmitigated nuisances! If they are not hearing what they ought not to hear, they are imagining what they ought not to imagine--" "And telling things that they ought not to tell," she added, with a laugh.
"Which is an extremely bad thing," said I, "when there is nothing to tell." For the rest of that evening I was more lively than is my wont, for it was a very easy thing to be lively in that family.