"Michael, "I never expected the wish to come true." The Trout, "Great Oceans! Why bother to wish it, then? I call that simply a waste of time. - P. L. Travers

We Butchers, you know, like a bit of company. And we don’t often get the chance of talking to a nice, handsome young lady like you — — ” He broke off suddenly, for he had caught sight of Mary Poppins’s face.

And when, at last, .... I stood in London with ten pounds in my hand - five of which I promptly lost - the ancestors dwelling in my blood who, all my life, had summoned me with insistent eldritch voices, murmured together, like contented cats.

Gently, please, gently!” she warned, as they crowded about her. “This is a baby, not a battle-ship!