It's just what I said: it's all for you, dear." "Don't let her con you," Walter advised his father.

"She's got expectations.

You hang around downstairs a while after dinner and you'll see." But the prophecy failed, though Adams went to his own room without waiting to test it.

No one came.
Alice stayed in the "living-room" until half-past nine, when she went slowly upstairs.

Her mother, almost tearful, met her at the top, and whispered, "You mustn't mind, dearie." "Mustn't mind what ?" Alice asked, and then, as she went on her way, laughed scornfully.