10/21 She'll be in such a rage! It'll be fun to hear her cursing and swearing. We'd serve the same to every house in the row, but that would be more than we could get off with. Here's a rope to tie her door with first." I followed him, not without inward misgivings, which I kept down as well as I could. I argued with myself, "_I_ am not doing it; I am only going with Peter: what business is that of anybody's so long as I don't touch the thing myself ?" Only a few minutes more, and I was helping Peter to tie the rope to the latch-handle of a poor little cottage, saying now to myself, "This doesn't matter. |