"I'll tell you! We'll make her Wales," said Dawn; "and then she won't be on any side particular. And we won't think of her at all."
So Susy was made into a Welshwoman, and though Christina suggested that Wales was joined to England, Puggy would not listen, and for the time Susy's visits to the Towers were discontinued.
"I've got a most splendid game in my head," announced Dawn one morning. He always appeared after breakfast, ready for any amount of fun.
"What is it? We want a fresh game."
"It's a kind of civil war," explained Dawn. "Yesterday evening I went out on the village green when the boys were playing cricket, and they said they would join us. I'm going to rise up against Great Britain, and I'll get the better of you both."
"Hurrah!" cried Puggy. "And we'll have followers; I'll go down to the village and get some."
"Wait a minute. I've bagged the Murphy boys because they're Irish, and the Greens' mother came from Ireland, so they belong to me. I thought we'd prepare to-day, and have a regular fight to-morrow all over the woods and lanes. I'll have a force, and you'll have a force, and we'll choose our men to-day."
"But I can't fight," said Christina anxiously.
The boys considered.
"Well," said Puggy, a flash of inspiration seizing him, "you must be my wife and stay in the turret room, and Dawn and his rebel soldiers will come to attack it, and you must prevent them getting in."