Do you all agree ?' The others would have been ashamed not to agree, so they did.

It was not till quite near the end of dinner--mutton fritters and blackberry and apple pie--that out of the earnest talk of the four came an idea that pleased everybody and would, they hoped, please Nurse.
Cyril and Robert went out with the taste of apple still in their mouths and the purple of blackberries on their lips--and, in the case of Robert, on the wristband as well--and bought a big sheet of cardboard at the stationers.

Then at the plumber's shop, that has tubes and pipes and taps and gas-fittings in the window, they bought a pane of glass the same size as the cardboard.

The man cut it with a very interesting tool that had a bit of diamond at the end, and he gave them, out of his own free generousness, a large piece of putty and a small piece of glue.
While they were out the girls had floated four photographs of the four children off their cards in hot water.

These were now stuck in a row along the top of the cardboard.