"Oh, you'll have to slide up to be original," said Betty Barkley.
"How can anybody slide up the banisters?" demanded Reggie hotly.
"You've the intellect of a terrapin," said Betty scornfully. "It's because nobody has ever done it that it ought to be done here."
Desboro, seated on the pool table, told her she could do whatever she desired, including arson, as long as she didn't disturb the Aqueduct Police.
Katharine Frere said to Jacqueline: "Everything you do is so original. Can't you invent something new for us to do?"
"She might suggest that you all try to think," said Mrs. Hammerton tartly. "That would be novelty enough."
Cairns seized the megaphone and shouted: "Help! Help! Aunt Hannah is after us!"
Captain Herrendene, seated beside Desboro with a half smile on his face, glanced across at Jacqueline who stood in the embrasure of a window, a billiard cue resting across her shoulders.
"Please invent something for us, Miss Nevers," he said.
"Why don't you play hide and seek?" sneered Mrs. Hammerton, busily knitting a tie. "It's suited to your intellects."