We come out of another time and another place.' 'And we want to ask you not to trouble about conquering Britain,' said Anthea; 'it's a poor little place, not worth bothering about.' 'Are you from Britain ?' the General asked.

'Your clothes are uncouth, but well woven, and your hair is short as the hair of Roman citizens, not long like the hair of barbarians, yet such I deem you to be.' 'We're not,' said Jane with angry eagerness; 'we're not barbarians at all.

We come from the country where the sun never sets, and we've read about you in books; and our country's full of fine things--St Paul's, and the Tower of London, and Madame Tussaud's Exhibition, and--' Then the others stopped her.
'Don't talk nonsense,' said Robert in a bitter undertone.
Caesar looked at the children a moment in silence.

Then he called a soldier and spoke with him apart.

Then he said aloud-- 'You three elder children may go where you will within the camp.