We ought to be grateful.' 'Why shouldn't we GO ON being, though ?' Cyril asked--'lucky, I mean, not grateful.

Why's it all got to stop ?' 'Perhaps something will happen,' said Anthea, comfortably.

'Do you know, sometimes I think we are the sort of people that things DO happen to.' 'It's like that in history,' said Jane: 'some kings are full of interesting things, and others--nothing ever happens to them, except their being born and crowned and buried, and sometimes not that.' 'I think Panther's right,' said Cyril: 'I think we are the sort of people things do happen to.

I have a sort of feeling things would happen right enough if we could only give them a shove.

It just wants something to start it.