Without Poppy, however, the girls refused to stir.

There was no help for it, and Miss Slowcum only trusted that their first walk might be short and uneventful.
"It is an unpleasant arrangement, but I do not see any help for it," she said, addressing her little party as they assembled in the hall; "we must sally forth as though we were a school.

You, Miss Jasmine, will have the goodness to walk in front with me.

Miss Mainwaring and her youngest sister can immediately follow us, and Sarah, you will please to keep behind." "Oh, lor!" ejaculated Poppy, "I thought me and Miss Jasmine was to stay together--it's what I has been looking forward to through all the toils of the work, and the smuts and the Sarah Janes, and the Sarah Marys this morning.

It is another biting.