I shall bicycle over.
'But all the same it is very odd, and perhaps you and I had better consider what it _may_ mean.

I know from Broomie herself that she gave notice yesterday--and now she is going to stay.
And I know from Forest that father called him up when it was quite dark, between three and four in the morning--Mrs.Forest thought the Germans had come when she heard the knocking--and asked him to come with him and undo the gates.

Forest told me that _he_ would have had nothing whatever to do with closing them, nor with anything 'agin the Government! He's a staunch old soul, is Forest.

So when father told him what he wanted, he didn't know what to make of it.

However, they both groped their way through the fog, which was thick on the other side of the park, and set to at the gates.