'I might have guessed it.

Well, come on.' So he came, and the girls wished he hadn't.

But Robert whispered-- 'Nonsense--as long as he's with us we've got some chance of the Amulet.
We can always fly if anything goes wrong.' The morning was so fresh and bright; their breakfast had been so good and so unusual; they had actually seen the Amulet round the Egyptian's neck.

One or two, or all these things, suddenly raised the children's spirits.

They went off quite cheerfully through the city gate--it was not arched, but roofed over with a great flat stone--and so through the street, which smelt horribly of fish and garlic and a thousand other things even less agreeable.