half-kittenish

Updated: May 2, 2025

"I've got business with Sophia, and I must get it done. I've got for to render an account of my stewardship to Sophia, under her father's will, and her mother's will, and her aunt's will, and it's nobody's business but mine and Sophia's, I reckon. Now then," he glanced at his wife, "off with ye!" Maria rose, half-kittenish and half-ashamed.

Arnold Bennett - The Old Wives' Tale