You gave us three or more.

They all returned from him to you

Though they were mine before.’”

“Alice In Wonderland!” Janet clapped her hands and laughed in open amusement. “To think of an artillery officer being ‘up’ in nursery rhymes.”

“So that’s where the lines are from! My niece and nephew are responsible for my knowledge of Lewis Carroll’s masterpiece.”

“Do you remember the next verse?” asked Janet. “It goes:

“‘If I or she should chance to be

Involved in this affair,

I trust to you to set me free

Exactly as we were.’”