You'd see in a second how it was done, I'm afraid." "Oh, do show us, just for fun!" "What do you want to see ?" "Oh, anything!" "The vanishing coin ?" "Yes, yes.

Go ahead!" "Then give me two pennies or shillings, either will do." The audience who had clustered round looked at one another, each expecting somebody else to produce a coin.

Then everybody laughed.
"We haven't got so much as a copper amongst us! We're a set of absolute paupers!" declared Doris.

"Can't you do some other trick ?" "There is nothing else I could manage so well," said Rona disconsolately.

"This was the only one I really learnt." "Can't it be done with anything but coins ?" "Something the same size and round, perhaps ?" "My pendant ?" said Ulyth, fetching the trinket from the bench.