Below the outer wall of the Castle you will see the Daisified Path, and
that leads you straight to the gate of Higgins Farm, under a clipped box
archway."

"I haven't got a land outfit," said Sarah Brown. "But I saw a pair
called Mesopotamian Officer's Model, with laces and real white buckskin
collision mats between the knees, that would fit me, and I can pawn
my----"

At that moment there was a loud report. Every one looked at the double
bass, but all his strings were for the moment intact.

"A maroon," said the witch.

"My dears," exclaimed Lady Arabel, much relieved to hear that this new
sensation was not supernatural. "How too dretfully tahsome with the
sweet and the savoury still to come. Do you know, I promised
Pinehurst--my husband--never to remain in this house during an air-raid.
It was his own fault, the dear thing; he had a craze for windows; this
house has more glass space than wall, I think, and Pinehurst, in his
spare time, used always to be making plans for squeezing in more
windows. Our room is like a conservatory--so dretfully embarrassing. So
I always take my knitting across the road to the crypt of St.
Sebastian's, and I'm sure you won't mind coming too. You might have
brought a box of spellicans, or a set of table croquet, but I'm afraid
the Vicar wouldn't like it. A nice man but dretfully particular. We must
wait for the end of this piece, the first violin is so touchy."

They all waited patiently while the piece continued. It was a plain
uneventful piece, composed by a Higgins relative and therefore admired