I suppose you won't believe either that giants used to live here ?" Anna laughed even more scornfully.

"No, I will not," she said loftily.
"I am not quite stupid enough to believe all the nonsense you would like to make me." "If you could only realize it, it is you who are talking nonsense," said Dan crushingly, and he turned away from her.

He was not going to tell any of his beloved legends and stories for Anna to sneer at.

"It is simply a sign of ignorance," he said, with his most superior air, "not to believe in things because we haven't actually seen them with our very own eyes.

I suppose you will not believe that St.Michael's Mount used to be surrounded with woods where there is sea now, until a huge wave rushed in and swamped everything, right up to the foot of the Mount, and never went back again ?" "No," said Anna obstinately, "of course I shouldn't believe it.
Such things couldn't happen.