He knew but too well that grown-up people sometimes like to keep things far different from what we would, and you catch it if you try to do otherwise.
'I shouldn't have minded THAT,' Dicky said, 'because I could easily have taken it all off again if they'd only said so.

But the sillies went and propped up a milk-pan against the window.

They never took the trouble to notice I had mended it.

So the wretched thing pushed the window open all by itself directly they propped it up, and it tumbled through into the moat, and they are most awfully waxy.

All the men are out in the fields and they haven't any spare milk-pans.