"I shan't. You're to believe me."
"You might as well say an elephant is in the nursery."
"If I said it, he would be."
"You're just a pretence-maker, that's what you are, and a story-teller."
"Fibo is a lovely story-teller. I'd like to be like him. I shall ask Er to flap his wings in your face when you're asleep to-night, and then you'll be frightened."
"Oh, Dreamikins," objected Daffy, "angels would never frighten people."
"Er would do it for me. Boys who won't believe must be punished."
Dreamikins tried to look severe.
Edmund frowned at her.
"Er told me he once took care of a boy who wouldn't believe in him, and he tooked him to a high cliff above the sea and let him tumble over, and then he just caught him in time, and then he asked him if he felt him do it, and the boy said 'Yes,' and he cried and begged his angel's pardon."