I warned you not to move the curtain." Bruce shrugged.
"But, Kit," returned her father, "Ahmed was so infernally slow! He could spend time in chattering to the guards." Ahmed heard, but said nothing.
"Never mind," interposed Bruce pacifically.

"At any rate we shall have the advantage of a couple of hours, and Umballa will not catch us with the elephants he has at hand.

By the time he starts his expedition we shall be thirty miles away.

Let us be cheerful!" "Kit," said her father, "I couldn't help it.

I can't think quickly any more.