"Three-tenths of a second," said Roy.
"He'll be too frightened to eat," said Dora Daring.
"He's never too frightened to eat," said Connie Bennett.
"He consumes pie while he's consumed with fear," Roy said.
"He consumes everything," said Warde.
"Oh, what will we ever do?" Minerva wailed, wringing her arms in desperation.
"The thing to do is to reach him before he gets really started," said Doc Carson, who was ever thoughtful and far-sighted. "When he starts he works fast. I don't think he's really begun yet. He believes in fair play and he wouldn't start before ten o'clock—that's refreshment time, isn't it?"
"It was to be," said Minerva.
"That's the time we were waiting for," said Brownie.
"Has he a watch?" Margaret asked.