And, after all, we shouldn't mind Sir James when we got used to him." "But we should! And look how we stopped the Cruncher!" "Sir James isn't like the Cruncher--at all," said the Terror.
"All stepfathers are alike; and they're beastly!" cried Erebus.
"Now, it's no good your getting yourself obstinate about it," said the Terror firmly.

"That won't be of any use at all, if they've made up their minds.

But what's bothering me is what that old cat meant by saying that the Morgans were rovers." Erebus' frown deepened as she knitted her brow over the cryptic utterance of Mrs.Blenkinsop.

Then she said in a tone of considerable relief: "She must have meant that he wasn't really in earnest about marrying Mum." "Yes, that's what she did mean," growled the Terror.

"And she'll go about telling everybody that he's only fooling." "But I don't think he is.