Father had given them an odd look, as if he had come upon Frederick borrowing something of his without permission.

Pots of money too.” “What makes you think that, Dudley?” asked the marzipan voice of Mr. Appleby. Conversation about Mrs. Pagani was now general. “Couldn’t behave as she does if she hadn’t, Mr. Appleby,” replied Dudley.

Charles Dickens’s children said they always knew when he was writing a book because they could hear him. He created characters through their voices, and would practise their verbal tics in front of a mirror.