"Not in here!" Catherine reached for the stick. "You idiots! You'll knock the plaster off."
"Letty jump!" Catherine bundled Letty and the doll into her lap.
"Let's see what Spencer draws."
"Spencer was a difficult proposition." Margaret smiled at him. "I thought of a rubber ball, and then I remembered he had one. So I got this." She poked the box into his hands.
"It's as good as Christmas, isn't it, Muvver?" Marian was on tiptoe, her Pogo stick clasped to her side, her head close to Spencer's as he tore off the papers.
"Thought I'd help make him practical, to please the King."
"What is it?" Spencer knelt beside the box full of pieces of steel.
"You stick them together, and make skyscrapers and bridges and water towers and elevators. The clerk said you could build a city."
"Let me help, Spencer?" Marian flung herself on the floor beside Spencer.