"There, I've done every bit I can do I'm going to see what o'clock it is." "I heard it strike eleven just now." "Sylvia, you'll tip up What a tremendous stretch " "Wha-ooh Oh dear We sha'n't get one moment before dinner Oh, horrible oh, horrible most horrible " "Sylvia, you know I hate hearing Hamlet profaned." "You can't hate it more than having no one to hear our lessons." "That makes you do it. What on earth can Mary be about?" "Some tiresome woman to speak to her, I suppose." "I'm sure it can't be as much her business as it is to mind her poor little sisters. Oh dear if Papa could only afford us a governess " "I am sure I should not like it at all; besides, it is wrong to wish to be richer than one is."