"Certainly," I answered patriotically.
"Well, then," said Phyllis crushingly.
"If I had done that I should feel very much ashamed of myself," I said.
"Well, you didn't," said Lillah, and that finished it.
They evidently had an offensive and defensive alliance against this sort of thing.
"If your mother," I began.
"Sand!, Sand!" shrieked Phyllis.
"Sand,", echoed Lillah, and both children were gone.
They had just noticed the present possibilities of the empty lake as a substitute for Margate. Two best frocks! Essentially a moment for efficiency.
I stepped firmly across the railings. And there the British Government stepped in. I turned to regard a policeman (out-size).