"They've just the air of very nice children receiving guests when their parents are out."
He thought of something else, and said, "They're not even very nice children."
His mother, who described him last week "as a real nice child," is alive.
I remarked that people, perfect strangers, took to him as one takes to a nice child.
"It's a shame because he's got a couple of nice children, and we just want to see him succeed."
All the same she was a nice child and it was impossible not to like her.
"Shirley is a nice child, but the last person in the world to make a competent secretary."
I have an interest now in that couple of kindly people, with two nice children.
People said mean things about him, but he was nice to us children.
We look for respectful people who have good values and nice children.