Maimie Mannering Quotes

″‘And if you want very much to give me a kiss’, Maimie said, ‘you can do it.’ Very reluctantly Peter began to take the thimble off his finger. He thought she wanted it back. ‘I don’t mean a kiss,’ she said hurriedly, ‘I mean a thimble’. ‘What’s that?’ Peter asked. ‘It’s like this,’ she said, and kissed him.”

″‘The door’, replied Maimie, ‘will always, always be open, and mother will always be waiting at it for me.‘”