“Hee-ha!” she heard through the door, which was a very tiny way open, “that’s the time!”
She thought it was the voice of Silver Thimble.
“I don’t care,” answered a new voice. “It’s too much, to have to clean them all at once.”
“Oh, there are only two more. Come, I’m ready—it is really excellent practice for a soldier!”
“It is really excellent practice”
“Take ’em out, take ’em out, I say!”
“No
in-sub-
or-din-
a-tion!”