"You've got us into this--I didn't want to do it; but I'll stand by you, of course.

Only you'll have to think of something quick." Judy bit three finger-tips off her right-hand glove, and looked melancholy.
"There's absolutely nothing to do, Pip," she said slowly.

"I didn't think it would turn out like this.

I suppose we'd better just go straight back and hand ourselves over for punishment.
He'll be too angry to hear any sort of an excuse, so we'd better just grin and hear whatever he does to us.

I'm really sorry, too, that I made a laughing-stock of him up there." Pip was explosive.