possible to be when you're dressed for out-of-doors, were seen to
the tram by the boys. When the boys came back, every one looked at
every one else and said--

'Now!'

They locked the front door and they locked the back door, and they
fastened all the windows. They moved the table and chairs off the
carpet, and Anthea swept it.

'We must show it a LITTLE attention,' she said kindly. 'We'll give
it tea-leaves next time. Carpets like tea-leaves.'

Then every one put on its out-door things, because as Cyril said,
they didn't know where they might be going, and it makes people
stare if you go out of doors in November in pinafores and without
hats.

Then Robert gently awoke the Phoenix, who yawned and stretched
itself, and allowed Robert to lift it on to the middle of the
carpet, where it instantly went to sleep again with its crested
head tucked under its golden wing as before. Then every one sat
down on the carpet.

'Where shall we go?' was of course the question, and it was warmly
discussed. Anthea wanted to go to Japan. Robert and Cyril voted
for America, and Jane wished to go to the seaside.

'Because there are donkeys there,' said she.