"Very likely; you're sold there! But what shall I do to wash on? I dare say Agnes has got a basin somewhere."
"There's an odd set in here!" exclaimed Hugh, springing up and hurrying into the box room next door.
John followed quickly enough, and to his joy found an old mahogany stand which would do very well for the crockery which he discovered on a top shelf covered with dust.
"How shall we wash it?" he asked.
"I'll get our towels; Agnes'll have to give us clean ones."
They pulled about the boxes and things till they had secured their prize, and then went back in triumph to John's "castle."
"Hugh, I shall never have you in here," said John.
"Grateful," said Hugh.
"I mean, without asking."
"Oh, of course not! Nor I you."