Such an afternoon as they had had! Once inside the Aquarium,
even Pip had put his conscience qualms on one side, and bent all
his energies to enjoying himself thoroughly. And Judy was like
a little mad thing. She spent a shilling of her money on the
switchback railway, pronouncing the swift, bewildering motion
"heavenly." The first journey made Pip feel sick, so he
eschewed a repetition of it, and watched Judy go off from time to
time, waving gaily from the perilous little car, almost with his
heart in his mouth. Then they hired a pair of roller skates each,
and bruised themselves black and blue with heavy falls on the
asphalt. After that they had a ride on the merry-go-round, but
Judy found it tame after the switchback, and refused to squander
a second threepence upon it, contenting herself with watching Pip
fly round, and madly running by his side, to keep up as long as
she could. They finished the afternoon with a prolonged
inspection of the fish-tanks, a light repast of jam tarts of
questionable freshness, and twopennyworth of peanuts. And, as
I said, it was half-past four as they hastened up the path again
to the top gate of the Barracks.

"I hope he's been good," Judy said, as she turned the handle.
"Yes, you come, too, Pip"--for that young gentleman hung back one
agonized second. "Twenty kicks or blows divided by two only make
ten, you see."

They went up the long stone veranda and stopped at one door.

There was a little knot of young officers laughing and talking
close by.