At other times she was wont to run into the kitchen without knocking; but now she knocked primly at the front door.
When Marilla took her breakfast up to her she found the child sitting primly on her bed, pale and resolute, with tight-shut lips and gleaming eyes.
The blue and gilt vases that had been among her mother's wedding-presents still primly adorned the mantelpiece, flanking the china clock of berosed and besprayed ware that never went.
" "Oh yes," Wendy said primly.
Then she went to the porch and sat primly and stiffly down.
