There's one thing I can't help noticing, though--the tone has been going down." "Do you think it has ?" replied Lizzie thoughtfully.

"Merle and Alice and Mary are rather silly, certainly, but there's not much harm in them." "I don't mean our form; it's the juniors.

I've noticed it continually lately." "Now you come to speak of it, so have I.I don't quite know what it is, but there's a something." "There's a very decided something.

It's come on quite lately, but it's there.

They're not behaving nicely at all.