"I am greatly obliged to you," she said, "for giving me your confidence in this way, and I want you to believe that I shall be thoroughly loyal to you, and that I never will breathe anything you have said.

But I also want you to know that I do not change any of my opinions.

Now we understand each other, don't we ?" "Yes," I answered, "but I think I understand you better than you understand me." "Not a bit of it," she replied; "that's nonsense.

Do you see that flower-pot on the top of the stump by the little hill over there?
Percy has been firing at it with his air-gun.

Do you think you could hit it with an apple?
Let's each take three apples and try." It was late in the afternoon when Miss Edith returned from the Holly Sprig, where she and Genevieve had driven in a pony-cart.