Tell Martha you are all going for a picnic--she'll be glad enough not to have dinner to set--then you go on.

Two others can watch if the coast's clear while I get down and across the paddocks, and once we're at the corner of the road we're safe." It seemed feasible enough, and in a very short time the preparations were all made.

Pip was mounting guard at the shed, and had undertaken to get Judy safely away, and Bunty had been stationed on the back veranda to keep cave and whistle three times if there was any danger.
He was to wait for a quarter of an hour by the kitchen clock, and then, if all was well, to bring the big billy and a bread loaf, and catch the others up on the road.
It was slow work waiting there, and he stood on one leg, like a meditative fowl, and reviewed the events of the last few exciting days.
He had a depressed feeling at his heart, but why he could hardly tell.

Perhaps it was the lie he had told his father, and which was still unconfessed, because the horse was seriously lame, and his courage oozed away every time he thought of that riding-whip.
Perhaps it was the reaction after the great excitement.

Or it may have been a rankling sense of injustice at the small glory his brave deeds on Judy's behalf evoked from the others.