“How do you like it, as far as you’ve gone?” he asked.
“We are making believe that it is a fairy story,” Meg answered; “and it’s very easy.”
And then a group of people came between and separated them.
XII
How tired they were when they came out from the world of pictures into the world of thronging people! How their limbs ached and they were brought back to the realization that they were creatures with human bodies, which somehow they seemed to have forgotten!
When they stood in the sunshine again Robin drew a long breath.
“It is like coming out of one dream into another,” he said. “We must have been there a long time. I didn’t know I was tired and I didn’t know I was hungry, but I am both. Are you?”
She was as tired and hungry as he was.
“Dare we buy a sandwich to eat with our eggs?” she said.
“Yes, I think we dare,” Robin answered. “Where shall we go and eat them?”