These were my words, they were a friend's words; bonnily have I paid for them!

"And bonnily too.

"Ay," says Alan, "I wish we were in some force, and this was a battle, we would have bonnily out-manoeuvred them!

The valet asked politely when he should prepare the carriage, as if he did not doubt that I would leave with my booty at the first opportunity while my maid, whose face was no longer the spit of my own, continued bonnily to beam.