From 8-year old Hilda’s diary:
I’d rather go out with Grandfather than anyone else in the world. He never tries to teach me anything. Today we went for a walk together. First we went to the corner grocery store and he bought me a bag of sugar cookies. He told me not to tell Grandmother. I asked him if that wasn’t a lie and he said no, not at all. He said that if she didn’t’ ask me and I said nothing, well that was nothing. If she asked me if I had something to eat without asking what it was and I said yes, without saying what I ate, well that was nothing too but of course, if she asked me if I had eaten cookies and I said no, that would be a scorching lie. Anyhow, I ate the cookies and so did Brownie and maybe Grandmother won’t ask me. I hope she doesn’t.