Denny is rather unlucky, though a most careful boy.

It was he who dropped his boot, and it went blundering down the stairs, echoing like thunderbolts, and waking up Albert's uncle.

But when we explained to him that we were going to do some gardening he let us, and went back to bed.
Everything is very pretty and different in the early morning, before people are up.

I have been told this is because the shadows go a different way from what they do in the awake part of the day.

But I don't know.