How do things get uninsured, Mr.Bird ?" "The insurance lapses, of course, if the premium is n't regularly paid." "Oh, that would account for it!" said Polly easily.

"There were quantities of things that were n't paid regularly, though they were always paid in course of time.

You ought to have asked me if we were insured, Edgar,--you were the boy of the house,--insurance is n't a girl's department.

Let me see the telegrams, please." They all laughed heartily over Mrs.Greenwood's characteristic message.
"Think of 'husband' bearing that aged ice-cream freezer and that leaky boiler to a place of safety!" exclaimed Polly.

"'All that was left of them, left of six hundred!' Well, my family portraits, piano, freezer, and boiler will furnish a humble cot very nicely in my future spinster days.