People always saw how I did it." "Rona's the girl for that," suggested Hattie Goodwin.
"Is she?
Come here, Rona, I want you.

Can you really and truly do conjuring ?" "Oh, not properly!" laughed Rona.

"But when I was on board ship there was a gentleman who was very clever at it, and I and some boys I'd made friends with were tremendously keen at learning.

We got him to show us a few easy tricks, and we were always trying them.

I could manage it just a little, but I'm out of practice now.