In fact, I can hardly wait to begin.

I will be your business manager, my Pollykins, and we 'll make it a success, if it is possible.

If you 'll take me into your confidence and tell me what you mean to do, I will plan the hows and whens and wheres." "You see, dear people," continued Polly, "it is really the only thing that I know how to do; and I have had several months' experience, so that I 'm not entirely untrained.

I 'm not afraid any more, so long as it is only children; though the presence of one grown person makes me tongue-tied.

Grown-up people never know how to listen, somehow, and they make you more conscious of yourself.