He was too thin, so that the styleless clothes hung poorly, and something in his coloring made her think that he ate the wrong foods.

lashings of ginger beer

My sister is a big tattler; she always tells Mommy when I hit her!

Hellen Gravely: 'You ransacked my hotel, captured my staff with that strange vacuum of yours... And to top it all off, you catnapped my sweetie, my little darling... My precious Polterkitty!'