"I'm pretty nigh ashamed of myself. Yes, I am." And now Ruby burst out into tears. "Because I wouldn't have John Crumb, I didn't mean to be a bad girl. Nor yet I won't. But what'll I do, if everybody turns again me? Aunt won't go on for ever in this way. She said last night that--"
"Bother what she says!" Felix was not at all anxious to hear what aunt Pipkin might have to say upon such an occasion.

 I'm pretty nigh ashamed of myself. Yes, I am." And now Ruby burst into tears. "Because I wouldn't have John Crumb, I didn't mean to be a bad girl. Nor yet I won't. But what'll I do, if everybody turns again me? Aunt said last night that-"
"Bother what she says!"
