He nodded his head with satisfaction.

It had been a splendid time.
It would be a very long while, he knew, before he was allowed out again like that.Yes.He clasped the mug tightly, and the door closed behind him.
I don't know that there is anything more to say.

There were the empty money-box and the mug.

There was Bim's unhesitating and unchangeable story.

There _is_ a shop, just behind the Square, where they have some Russian crockery.