We got it, and we'll clear it
away; and then we'll go somewhere on the carpet. It's not often we
get a chance of being out all night. We can go right away to the
other side of the equator, to the tropical climes, and see the sun rise
over the great Pacific Ocean.'
'Right you are,' said Robert. 'I always did want to see the
Southern Cross and the stars as big as gas-lamps.'
'DON'T go,' said Anthea, very earnestly, 'because I COULDN'T. I'm
SURE mother wouldn't like us to leave the house and I should hate
to be left here alone.'
'I'd stay with you,' said Jane loyally.
'I know you would,' said Anthea gratefully, 'but even with you I'd
much rather not.'
'Well,' said Cyril, trying to be kind and amiable, 'I don't want
you to do anything you think's wrong, BUT--'
He was silent; this silence said many things.
'I don't see,' Robert was beginning, when Anthea interrupted--
'I'm quite sure. Sometimes you just think a thing's wrong, and
sometimes you KNOW. And this is a KNOW time.'
The Phoenix turned kind golden eyes on her and opened a friendly
beak to say--
'When it is, as you say, a "know time", there is no more to be
said. And your noble brothers would never leave you.'
'Of course not,' said Cyril rather quickly. And Robert said so
too.
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