"We will go across," said Margaret.
"Of course we will. We older children will go, and we'll take Nurse with us,"—with a bow towards Hennie Penny,—"and we'll make a day of it, and have ices again at that place in the Arcade, and then we'll go round the shops and clear them out for the benefit of Sark."
"Ripping!" said Miss Penny.
VII
They had already made one trip to Guernsey, crossing by the early Saturday boat and returning the same evening.
But that was a strictly business affair.
"We're feeling frightfully fossilised at having bought nothing, except what we absolutely needed, for nearly a month," said Miss Penny. "From that point of view I should imagine the Garden of Eden may have been just a trifle slow—"
"Ah, you see, Mother Eve hadn't had the advantages of a superior education," said Graeme.
"And there are some fripperies we simply must have," said Miss Penny, "even for a runaway wedding like this. You see, when we decided to come here we had no idea how much farther we were going, and so we couldn't possibly provide. Of course if we had known you were here—"
At which Margaret laughed.