From 8-year old Hilda’s diary:
Alma called for me at school today and took me to Aunt Laura’s house. I love to go there because that’s where Bonnie lives. Tante Esther lives there too, but I don’t hate Tante Esther so much since I turned the hose on her. Today there were other people there too and we had a tea party. Before we left the table, Aunt Laura asked everyone if we had enough to eat and we all said yes, thank you. Of course I remembered but it sounds too silly. It is, “I have had a delightful sufficiency.” I said “No one talks like that, not even in the English story books.” Alma was very angry with me. She said that I couldn’t be excused from the table until I said it, but I didn’t care. I was finished anyhow. I didn’t say it and I don’t think I ever will.