"And I've not done yet," he said. "I suppose you all think you're going home to tumble sleepily into bed. Oh, no, we're going to have breakfast first at the old Sloop, Greenwich."
"Greenwich?" they repeated in chorus.
"I've ordered a thumping breakfast. The drive will do us good. We can see the dawn break over the river."
"And put our watches right," added Castleton.
"Then you girls can be driven home (your bags are all inside the taxis) and sleep all the rest of the morning and afternoon."
Maurice was so eager to carry this addendum that none of them had the heart to vote firmly for bed.
"I don't mind where we go," said Ronnie. "But why Greenwich in particular? We can see the dawn break over the river just as well at Westminster."
"Greenwich is in the manner," Maurice answered.
"What manner?"
"The crinoline manner. The Sloop is absolutely typically mid-Victorian and already twice as romantic as your crumbling Gothic or overworked Georgian."