"Yes, but—" began Anna-Rose.
"Mr. Dellogg isn't very dead, you see," said Anna-Felicitas.
Mr. Twist looked from them to the driver, but finding no elucidation there and only disapproval, looked back again.
"He isn't dead and settled down," said Anna-Rose.
"Not that sort of being dead," said Anna-Felicitas. "He's just dead."
"Just got to the stage when he has a funeral," said Anna-Rose.
"His funeral, it seems, is imminent," said Anna-Felicitas. "Did you not give us to understand," she asked, turning to the driver, "that it was imminent?"
"I don't know about imminent," said the driver, who wasn't going to waste valuable time with words like that, "but it's to-morrow."
"And you see what that means for us," said Anna-Felicitas, turning to Mr. Twist.
Mr. Twist did.