And Dicky said he did not mean it, he was quite decided to let it be in bottles.

So now it was all settled, and we did not see at the time that this would be a sort of going into business, but afterwards when Albert's uncle showed us we saw it, and we were sorry.
We only had to invent the medicine.

You might think that was easy, because of the number of them you see every day in the paper, but it is much harder than you think.

First we had to decide what sort of illness we should like to cure, and a 'heated discussion ensued', like in Parliament.
Dora wanted it to be something to make the complexion of dazzling fairness, but we remembered how her face came all red and rough when she used the Rosabella soap that was advertised to make the darkest complexion fair as the lily, and she agreed that perhaps it was better not.

Noel wanted to make the medicine first and then find out what it would cure, but Dicky thought not, because there are so many more medicines than there are things the matter with us, so it would be easier to choose the disease first.