“But what I want to know is, how am I ever going to get into bed?”
“You may well ask!” said her sister. “Look at the time! Just you come along home with me. I’ll show you. Where’s my eiderdown?”
Miss Thresher besought them to stay a few minutes longer, merely to decide what to do when the Zeppelins actually arrived. But Ursula said they had got all their work cut out to get through the preparatory stages of the schedule.
So the Committee adjourned.
As they went out, a figure came out of the kitchen side entrance and made for the coach-house, carrying a big cardboard box.
“Is anything the matter, Abigail?” I asked.
“No’m! I’m only hiding all our best hats in the stable; I expect they’ll be less likely to find them there.”
“But the Zepps aren’t exactly like burglars!” I said.
“No, I suppose they’re not,” she replied, “but when a creature like that Kaiser gets nosing about among the stars, as well as trying to rampage all over the earth, there’s no telling what he’ll be up to next. It’s as well to be prepared.”