"This is very curious." Effie had often got things in her eye before, and her father had always seemed to think it was natural - rather tiresome and naughty perhaps, but still natural. He had never before thought it curious. She stood holding her handkerchief to her eye, and said: - "I don't believe it's out." People always say this when they have had something in their eyes. "Oh, yes - it's out," said the doctor - "here it is on the brush. This is very interesting." Effie had never heard her father say that about anything that she had any share in. She said "What!"