'I see,' he said.

'It is some sort of game that you are engaged in?
Of course! Yes! Well, I will certainly promise.

Yet I wonder how you heard of the names of power ?' 'We can't tell you that either,' said Cyril; and Anthea said, 'Here is our charm,' and held it out.
With politeness, but without interest, the gentleman took it.

But after the first glance all his body suddenly stiffened, as a pointer's does when he sees a partridge.
'Excuse me,' he said in quite a changed voice, and carried the charm to the window.

He looked at it; he turned it over.