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Updated: May 13, 2025
Billie was more certain than ever that money was the complication. But surely that was an inexpensive way of spending one's vacation, provided one owned the van and the horse. "How much longer does your vacation last, Mr. Hook?" she asked. "It depends. My boss is a very notionate old party.
We have wanted a hot-house, and she ordered me to get the builder's estimate of the cost of two plans which she drew; but when I carried them to her, she pushed them aside, and said she would think of the matter, but thought she might leave this place, and therefore would not need the building. She is as notionate as a child; and no one but my poor mother could ever manage her. Hist! sir!
Nevius, that isn't nice," protested Miss Landbury. "Lover said urgent business called him out of town. He would go to Precious. Glory was getting freakish, queer. Precious never had visions. She was not notionate. She just loved him and was content. So he went to her.
"Curious!" echoed Rebecca, finding the term vague even while suggestive. "Yaas," she said, expansively, "she's cur'us, kinder onsosherble 'n' notionate. Now Dusk is cur'us. She's so still and sot, 'n' Nath Dunbar and Mandy they think a heap on her,'n' they do the best they kin by her, but she don't never seem to keer about 'em no way.
He's fussy sometimes and notionate, like the time when the surveyors were staying with us, and Mandy set some dishes on a chair. I'd already told him she didn't know how to clear a table for dessert, and he said I ought to have taught her." The girl's eyes danced. "You're all of you the same, the very same; not one of the three has changed." Charlotte beamed.
"No," said her father, answering for her; "once a day is as often as a child of her age ought to eat meat; she may have it at dinner, but never for breakfast or tea." The elder Mr. Dinsmore laughed, saying, "Really, Horace, I had no idea you were so notionate. I always allowed you to eat whatever you pleased, and I never saw that it hurt you.
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