And we listened and listened till our ears buzzed.
And Oswald whispered to Dicky, and Dicky went into our room and fetched the large toy pistol that is a foot long, and that has the trigger broken, and I took it because I am the eldest; and I don't think either of us thought it was the cat now.

But Alice and H.O.did.

Dicky got the poker out of Noel's room, and told Dora it was to settle the cat with when we caught her.
Then Oswald whispered, 'Let's play at burglars; Dicky and I are armed to the teeth, we will go first.

You keep a flight behind us, and be a reinforcement if we are attacked.

Or you can retreat and defend the women and children in the fortress, if you'd rather.' But they said they would be a reinforcement.
Oswald's teeth chattered a little when he spoke.