Yes, Miss Jasmine, the dinner's plain to-morrow, and I'll get up with the daybreak, and do my cleaning.

I don't see why Aunt Flint shouldn't let me go with you, miss." Mrs.Flint, when properly attacked, proved herself quite vulnerable.
She was anxious to please the Mainwarings who she hoped would take up their abode with her, for naughty Primrose had by no means divulged her real plans.

Accordingly, Poppy was allowed to get her dinner beforehand, and a very happy little quartet left the Mansion soon after eleven o'clock.
They had gone some little distance from Penelope Mansion, and found themselves in a far more cheerful and bright-looking street, before Poppy divulged her plans.
"I has got to choose," she said, "and as I stated distinct to Miss Jasmine yesterday, I don't go in for the glooms of the Tower, nor the solemns of the Cathedral.

I'd like to walk from end to end of Oxford Street first, and then I'd like to take a penny boat on the river." "A penny boat!" exclaimed the three sisters in a breath, "that does sound delightful, and so cheap.

Where did you hear of penny boats, Poppy ?" Poppy's face became radiant.
"It was the last charwoman at the Mansion," she answered.