It opened straight on to the leads, a flat place between two steep red roofs, with a parapet two feet high back and front, so that no one could see you.

It was a place no one could have invented better than, if they had tried, for hiding in.
Oswald spent the whole afternoon there.

He happened to have a volume of Percy's Anecdotes in his pocket, the one about lawyers, as well as a few apples.

While he read he fingered the cricket ball, and presently it rolled away, and he thought he would get it by-and-by.
When the tea-bell rang he forgot the ball and went hurriedly down, for apples do not keep the inside from the pangs of hunger.
Noel met him on the landing, got red in the face, and said-- 'It wasn't QUITE fair about the ball, because H.O.and I had eaten the coconut.

YOU can have it.' 'I don't want your beastly ball,' Oswald said, 'only I hate unfairness.
However, I don't know where it is just now.