She persuaded Beatrice, the maid-of-all-work, who had given her the bangle with the blue stone, to let her do it.

And she stayed and talked to him, by special invitation, while he ate the dinner.
She told him the whole adventure, beginning with-- 'This afternoon we found ourselves on the bank of the River Nile,' and ending up with, 'And then we remembered how to get back, and there we were in Regent's Park, and it hadn't taken any time at all.' She did not tell anything about the charm or the Psammead, because that was forbidden, but the story was quite wonderful enough even as it was to entrance the learned gentleman.
'You are a most unusual little girl,' he said.

'Who tells you all these things ?' 'No one,' said Anthea, 'they just happen.' 'Make-believe,' he said slowly, as one who recalls and pronounces a long-forgotten word.
He sat long after she had left him.

At last he roused himself with a start.
'I really must take a holiday,' he said; 'my nerves must be all out of order.

I actually have a perfectly distinct impression that the little girl from the rooms below came in and gave me a coherent and graphic picture of life as I conceive it to have been in pre-dynastic Egypt.
Strange what tricks the mind will play! I shall have to be more careful.' He finished his bread conscientiously, and actually went for a mile walk before he went back to his work..