"I--_wonder_!" I said to myself.
"What, dear?" said Kitty.
"Nothing. I must carry this young ruffian up to bed, I suppose."
Curiosity has been most unfairly ear-marked as the exclusive monopoly of
the female sex. But as I stumbled upstairs that night, bearing in my
arms the limp but stertorous carcase of my esteemed relative by
marriage, I could not help wondering (despite my efforts to put away
from me a matter which I had decided was not my business) exactly what
Robin _had_ said to Dolly behind that locked door.