“It’s a pity,” he said; “Mark, I don’t like it: shall we have them?”
“How can we? Of course they would spoil everything; they would tell everybody, and we could never do it; and, besides, the new island would not be a new island, if everybody was there.”
“No more it would.”
“We can take them afterwards—after we’ve done the island. That will be just as well.”
“So it will. They will watch us, though.”
“It’s very nasty of them to watch us,” said Mark. “Why should we take them for sails when they watch us?”
“I hate being watched,” said Bevis.
“They will just make everything as nasty for us as they can,” said Mark; “and we shall have to be as cunning as ever we can be.”
“We will do it, though, somehow.”
“That we will.”