When Alice came back she was very quiet, but she whispered to Oswald that it was all right.

When it was rather late Eliza said she was going out to post a letter.

This always takes her an hour, because she _will_ go to the post-office across the Heath instead of the pillar-box, because once a boy dropped fusees in our pillar-box and burnt the letters.

It was not any of us; Eliza told us about it.

And when there was a knock at the door a long time after we thought it was Eliza come back, and that she had forgotten the back-door key.