"Which one?" said Father lazily.
"Jenny."
"Then we should have lost Jenny."
This being so, Jenny promises solemnly not to play with any mine that comes ashore, nor to let Richard Henry play with it, nor to allow it to play with Richard Henry, nor—
"I suppose I may just point it out to him and say, 'Look, that's a mine'?" says Jenny wistfully. If she can't do this, it doesn't seem to be much use coming to the seaside at all.
"I don't think there would be any harm in that," says Father. "But don't engage it in conversation."
"Thank you very much," says Jenny, and she and Richard Henry go off together.
Mother watches them anxiously. Father closes his eyes.
"Now," says Jenny eagerly, "I'm going to show you a darling little crab.
Won't that be lovely?"
Richard Henry, having been deceived, as he feels, about the sea, is not too hopeful about that crab. However, he asks politely, "What's a crab?"