Can I have the one with the greeny thing on it?"
"Certainly, in a minute. And don't you think that women are much more
careless of the truth than men?"
"Yes. Can I----"
"Do you love your Aunt Julia?"
"Yes."
"Why?"
"Cos she always has got choc'lates in her bag."
"But don't you think it's much more important to have the truth in
your heart than chocolates in your bag?"
"Yes. Now can I have my pink cake?"
I released and rewarded her, and Julia prepared to speak her mind.
Fortunately, however, just at that moment my brother Tom, who is
Barbara's godfather, came in.
"Why, what a big girl we're getting!" he observed to Barbara in his
best godfatherly manner. "I suppose we shall soon be going to school?"
"Oh, no, not yet awhile," I interposed. "The fact is she's already
far too forward, and we think it a good thing to keep her back a bit.
You'd never believe the amazing remarks she makes. Just now, for
instance, we happened to be discussing the comparative love of truth
inherent in men and women, and Barbara chipped in and told me she
thought women were far more careless of the truth than men."
"Good heavens!" said Tom, who is a bachelor by conviction.
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