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The excerpt represents the core issue or deciding factor on which you must meditate, and is drawn from Tattine by Ruth Ogden [Mrs. Charles W. Ide]: and then they came near enugh to hear what she was saying.
"She's out of her head," said Rudolph, wh‚n they had listened'some moments,
and then Tattine turned round and saw them.
"No, I'm not out of my head at all," she laughed; "I was just practicing a
little while I waited for you."
"Practicing your GRANDMOTHER," which as you have observed was a pet expression
with Rudolph, whenever he wished to intimate that he considered your remarks
to be simply absurd.
"Yes, that's exactly it," Tattine answered good-naturedly. "I am practicing my
Grandmother. Grandma Luty, that's Mamma's mother, has come to make us a visit,
and Mamma has discovered that I'm not very polite to old people. Children used
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