“Oh, Edred, you are clever. Do say it.”
“If I do, do you think the mole will come?”
“Of course it will.”
“Well,” said Edred slowly, “of course I want to find the treasure and all that. But I don’t believe in it. It isn’t likely—that’s what I think. Now is it likely?”
“Unlikelier things happened in ‘The Amulet,’” said Elfrida.
“Ah,” said Edred, “that’s a story.”
“The mole said we were in a story. I say, Edred, do say your poetry.”
Edred slowly said it—
“‘Mole, mole,
Come out of your hole;