Peggy and Nora boiled a kettle for tea, and cut some bread and butter. There was honey on the larder shelf, and some gingerbread in the cake tin. They ate it all, and wished there was more.
“I vote we take something up to the tower bedroom for supper, and go up there now,” said Mike, when they had finished. “We can lock ourselves in, and be safe till morning. The two girls can have my bed, and we three boys can share Jack’s bed and that old sofa. We shall sleep safely till the morning!”
“I feel jolly tired now,” said Nora. “It’s all the excitement, I expect. Let’s take the snap cards up with us and have a game. I shall go to sleep unless I do something!”
So after they had washed up the tea-things, Peggy collected some supper and Jack hunted for the snap cards. They saw that all the downstairs windows and doors were fastened, and then they went upstairs to the top bedroom of the tower. They locked the door and sat down to play snap.
Paul had never played snap before, and he was dreadfully bad at it. He simply could not see when two cards were alike, and the others made him jump when they yelled out “snap.”
“I can see why you call it snap!” he said at last. “You snap at one another like dogs! It is a game for dogs, not children.”
That made the others roar with laughter. And it was whilst they were laughing that they heard a strange noise. They all looked up.
“An aeroplane!” said Jack. “Is it that one in the field going away?”
They rushed to the window. No - the blue and silver plane was still there - but another plane was soaring round and round, on the point of landing. Mike caught up the field-glasses that lay on the window-sill, and looked at the aeroplane through them.
Then he gave such a tremendous yell that poor Paul fell off his chair and tumbled in a heap on the ground!