I must leave out, too, all about the visit of the children to the Hippodrome with the Psammead in its travelling bag, and about how the wishes of the people round about them were granted so suddenly and surprisingly that at last the Psammead had to be taken hurriedly home by Anthea, who consequently missed half the performance.

Then there was the time when, Nurse having gone to tea with a friend out Ivalunk way, they were playing 'devil in the dark'-- and in the midst of that most creepy pastime the postman's knock frightened Jane nearly out of her life.

She took in the letters, however, and put them in the back of the hat-stand drawer, so that they should be safe.

And safe they were, for she never thought of them again for weeks and weeks.
One really good thing happened when they took the Psammead to a magic-lantern show and lecture at the boys' school at Camden Town.

The lecture was all about our soldiers in South Africa.