They'll build it a temple, I shouldn't wonder.' 'I couldn't bear to go without it,' said Anthea, 'and Pharaoh said "After supper", that won't be just yet.

And the soldier WAS curious.

I'm sure we're all right for the present.' All the same, the sounds of the door being unbarred seemed one of the prettiest sounds possible.
'Suppose he hasn't got the Psammead ?' whispered Jane.
But that doubt was set at rest by the Psammead itself; for almost before the door was open it sprang through the chink of it into Anthea's arms, shivering and hunching up its fur.
'Here's its fancy overcoat,' said the soldier, holding out the bag, into which the Psammead immediately crept.
'Now,' said Cyril, 'what would you like us to do?
Anything you'd like us to get for you ?' 'Any little trick you like,' said the soldier.

'If you can get a strange flower blooming in an earthenware vase you can get anything, I suppose,' he said.

'I just wish I'd got two men's loads of jewels from the King's treasury.