Table Manners

Mother (to her little daughter who has just returned home from a birthday party): I hope you said "No, thank you" more often than "Yes, thank you"?

Mabel: Yes, I did. I hadn’t been eating more than half an hour before they began saying, "Don’t you think you’ve eaten enough? Aren’t you afraid you’ll make yourself ill?" And I said "No, thank you" every time.