I don't know how they could.
Oswald would not like to play tag when his brother and sister were in a hole, but Oswald is an exception to some boys.
But Dicky told me afterwards he thought it was only a joke of Albert's uncle's.
The dusk grew dusker, till you could hardly tell the quinces from the leaves, and Alice and Oswald still sat exhausted with hard thinking, but they could not think of anything.

And it grew so dark that the moonlight began to show.
Then Alice jumped up--just as Oswald was opening his mouth to say the same thing--and said, 'Of course--how silly! I know.

Come on in, Oswald.' And they went on in.
Oswald was still far too proud to consult anyone else.

But he just asked carelessly if Alice and he might go into Maidstone the next day to buy some wire-netting for a rabbit-hutch, and to see after one or two things.
Albert's uncle said certainly.

And they went by train with the bailiff from the farm, who was going in about some sheep-dip and too buy pigs.
At any other time Oswald would not have been able to bear to leave the bailiff without seeing the pigs bought.