Ella almost bounced in her chair when the biscuits arrived, and had trouble choosing because she wanted all of them at once. She finally picked a few and put one of them in her mouth, grinning around it as Pansy asked her how she was.
She started to speak with the biscuit still in her mouth, but then she remembered she wasn't supposed to and giggled as she held her hand for her mouth to keep the biscuit crumbs inside.
'I'm good,' she said. 'I play lots with Dragon and Liam told me how babies are made and he's going to have a little sister, though I don't think that's fair at all, but don't tell mummy or daddy I said that, it's a secret, but I have Polly to play with and that is almost like Liam has Nigel isn't it?' she asked, all in one go and nearly without drawing breath.