A Clever Answer

Betty, a four-year-old girl, was taken to her aunt to have tea. When she began to eat a piece of cake, she exclaimed, "Oh, I just love this chocolate cake! It’s awfully nice."

"Betty, dear," said her aunt, "it’s wrong to say you 'love' cake, and I’ve told you many times that 'just' is wrongly used in such a sentence. Again, 'awfully' is quite wrong; 'very' would be more correct, dear. Now repeat your remark, please."

Betty repeated, "I like chocolate cake: it is very good."

"That’s better, dear," said the aunt.

"But it sounds as if I were talking about bread," protested the little girl.