"Yes," she said thoughtfully. "He had to turn out of his dressing room this summer; he couldn't stand them."
"But was Binny often caught, Evadne?" Diavolo asked.
"Often," she said.
"And punished?"
"Always."
"But I suppose he had generally eaten the apples?" Angelica suggested anxiously.
"It's better to eat them at once," sighed Diavolo. "Did you say he did everything he was told not to do?"
"Yes."
"I expect when he was told not to do a thing he could not think of anything else until he had done it," said Angelica.
"And now he's in heaven," Diavolo speculated, looking up through the window with big bright eyes pathetically.