Next time we go into the Past we'll regularly fit out the expedition.

You remember how the Babylonian Queen froze on to that pocket-book?
Well, we'll take things like that.

And offer them in exchange for a sight of the Amulet.' 'A sight of it is not much good.' 'No, silly.

But, don't you see, when we've seen it we shall know where it is, and we can go and take it in the night when everybody is asleep.' 'It wouldn't be stealing, would it ?' said Anthea thoughtfully, 'because it will be such an awfully long time ago when we do it.

Oh, there's that bell again.' As soon as dinner was eaten (it was tinned salmon and lettuce, and a jam tart), and the cloth cleared away, the idea was explained to the others, and the Psammead was aroused from sand, and asked what it thought would be good merchandise with which to buy the affection of say, the Ancient Egyptians, and whether it thought the Amulet was likely to be found in the Court of Pharaoh.
But it shook its head, and shot out its snail's eyes hopelessly.
'I'm not allowed to play in this game,' it said.