And while Georgie was showing them the way to the kitchen garden William unfolded his plan to the Outlaws. The odds and ends had fully intended to discuss the scenes from English history in the kitchen garden, but they discovered a bed of ripe strawberries, and considering a strawberry in the hand worth two scenes from English history in the bush, decided to leave the Past to its peaceful sleep and concentrate wholly upon the Present.... So they don’t come into the story any more.
Georgie returned to the Outlaws in the summer-house. Upon his face was a resolute determination to win that box of chocolate creams at all costs.
“What’ll we act?” he said eagerly.
“Well,” said William thoughtfully, “he was down here talkin’ to us a few minutes ago an’ he said that his favourite period in English history was King John.”
“We’ll do King John then,” said Georgie firmly.
“He said that his favourite part of King John was where he came back from losing his things in the Wash.”
“We’ll do that then,” said Georgie hastily.
“Who’ll be King John?” said William.
“I’ll be King John,” said Georgie.
“All right,” said William with unexpected amenity, “an’ shall Ginger an’ me be your two heralds an’ Douglas and Henry your servants or somethin’?”