James M Barrie

Alice Sit-By-The-Fire James M Barrie

Book Excerpt'Can one know a person by letters? Does she know you, Cosmo, by your letters to her, saying that your motto is "Something attempted, something done to earn a night's repose," and so on.''Well, I thought that would please her.''Perhaps in her letters she says things just to please us.'Cosmo wriggles.'This is pretty low of you, damping a fellow when he was trying to make the best of it.''All I want you to feel, ' Amy says, getting closer to him, 'is that as brother and sister, we are allies, you know--against the unknown.''Yes, Amy, ' Cosmo says, and gets closer to her. This so encourages her that she hastens to call him 'dear.''I want to say, dear, that I'm very sorry I used to shirk bowling to you.''That's nothing. I know what girls are. Amy, it's all right, I really am fond of you.''I have tried to be a sort of mother to you, Cosmo.''My socks and things--I know.' Returning anxiously to the greater question, 'Amy, do we know anything of them at all?''We know