It was dreadful the way all the three were looking at him, just as if they did not admire him.

Always try to be a litle kinder than necessary.

Will they reach the nursery in time? If so, how delightful for them, and we shall all breathe a sigh of relief, but there will be no story. On the other hand, if they are not in time, I solemnly promise that it will all come right in the end.

One could mention many lovable traits in Smee. For instance, after killing, it was his spectacles he wiped instead of his weapon.

They knew in what they called their hearts that one can get on quite well without a mother, and that it is only the mothers who think you can't.

Courage: The lovely virtue-the rib of Himself that God sent down to His children.

I think one remains the same person throughout, merely passing, as it were, i these lapses of time from one room to another, but all in the same house.