She is a dear dolly.

I beg my dear Dolly, you will write me often and long letters.

You are such a lover of duty, dear Dolly, because everything you like becomes your duty.

And finally, special thanks to dear Dolly for those endless lakeside rambles where we do our best thinking.

"But, my dear Dolly-whaton earth will you do?"

It is a brighter prospect, dear Dolly, than to live either with us at Nuncombe, or even with Aunt Stanbury as her niece.

"If you knew the truth, my dear Dolly!"

"Can you not guess, dear Dolly," I whispered "why I was so angry with him last night?

"My dear dollies, how can I let them go?" moaned Daisy, hugging the entire dozen with a face full of maternal woe.