'Can't you see something crime-like in the very way they're lying ?' They were two tramps, and they were lying on the grass at the edge of the lane on the shady side fast asleep, only a very little further on than where the Baby was.

They were very ragged, and their snores did have a sinister sound.
'I expect they stole the titled heir at dead of night, and they've been travelling hot-foot ever since, so now they're sleeping the sleep of exhaustedness,' Alice said.

'What a heart-rending scene when the patrician mother wakes in the morning and finds the infant aristocrat isn't in bed with his mamma.' The Baby was fast asleep or else the girls would have kissed it.

They are strangely fond of kissing.

The author never could see anything in it himself.
'If the gipsies DID steal it,' Dora said 'perhaps they'd sell it to us.
I wonder what they'd take for it.' 'What could you do with it if you'd got it ?' H.O.