6/25 I have seen you as I have passed in and out. And you have found something that you think to be an antiquity, and you've brought it to show me? I should like to inspect it.' 'I'm afraid we didn't think about your liking to inspect it,' said the truthful Anthea. 'It was just for US because we wanted to know the name on it--' 'Oh, yes--and, I say,' Robert interjected, 'you won't think it rude of us if we ask you first, before we show it, to be bound in the what-do-you-call-it of--' 'In the bonds of honour and upright dealing,' said Anthea. |