"I know that perfectly well."
"If it were found out he could be arrested."
"He deserves to be. Sometimes I wish he were."
"Does your mother know?"
"No, I'm sure she doesn't. She never comes to the stable, and if she did she wouldn't climb the ladder. Sometimes Uncle is very keen about the messages. He makes me stay here, with the receiver on my head, listening for them, while he sits in the cottage talking to Mother, and drinking brandy which he brings in a flask. When I hear that humming noise I have to go and tell him, and he flies down to the stable."
"Can you understand the messages?"
"No. It's something like ordinary telegraphy, I suppose, and I don't know the code. I wish I did."
"I can't imagine how this wireless apparatus hasn't been discovered!"
"It's so well hidden. The poles go right up among the boughs of the tree."
"I don't think you ought to keep this secret any longer, Pam."