Twilight fell rapidly.
"Oughtn't you to be getting home ?" Paul, his hunger appeased, grinned.

His idea was to sneak into the scullery just after the public-houses closed, when his mother would be far too much occupied with Mr.Button to worry about him.

Chastisement would then be postponed till the morning.

Artlessly he laid the situation before his friend, who led him on to relate other amenities of his domestic life.
"Well, I'm jiggered!" said Barney Bill.

"She must be a she-devil!" Paul cordially agreed.