"I think, Small," says the disconsolate Mr. Guppy, "you might have mentioned that the old man was your uncle."
"You two were so close about him that I thought you would like me to be the same," returns that old bird with a secretly glistening eye. "Besides, I wasn't proud of him."
"Besides which, it was nothing to you, you know, whether he was or not," says Judy. Also with a secretly glistening eye.
"He never saw me in his life to know me," observed Small; "I don't know why I should introduce HIM, I am sure!"

"I think, Small," says the disconsolate Mr. Guppy, "you might have mentioned that the old man was your uncle."
"I wasn't proud of him," says young Smallweed.
"Besides, it was nothing to you, you know," says Judy.
"He never saw me in his life," observed Small.
