"But it isn't as much as it looks; it is only fourteen pence altogether.

I--I thought I'd tell you for fear you'd be disappointed;" and thankful for the darkness which hid his embarrassment, he joined the others, and with many friendly "Good-nights" to the "Rover" they started on the last stage of their journey.
Briskly enough they started; but their pace soon changed; their feet were weary, and there was really no great need to hurry now.
There would be no scoldings or punishments when they got home, even if they were late, for no one there was very particular as to time, and there was so much to see that they did not usually see that they stopped repeatedly to look about them.

The cottages were all lighted up now, and in some of them the blinds had been left undrawn and the windows open.

Even the old wharf, too, had here and there a light gleaming out of its blackness, adding to the weird mystery of the place, and then in rattled the "Rover," and drew up panting and throwing out deep breaths of steam and smoke and sparks, as though she had come at breakneck speed on urgent business from the extreme limits of the earth, and could scarcely be restrained from starting off again.

In the dim light they could see Dumble and Tonkin wandering round and lovingly criticizing their fiery steed.