Nobody was pleased.

For the worst of it was that these four children, with a very proper dislike of anything even faintly bordering on the sneakish, had a law, unalterable as those of the Medes and Persians, that one had to stand by the results of a toss-up, or a drawing of lots, or any other appeal to chance, however much one might happen to dislike the way things were turning out.
'I didn't mean to,' said Jane, near tears.

'I don't care, I'll draw another--' 'You know jolly well you can't,' said Cyril, bitterly.

'It's settled.
It's Medium and Persian.

You've done it, and you'll have to stand by it--and us too, worse luck.