From somewhere on the floor above persistent hammering and muffled appeals satisfied him as to the location and indignation of the schoolroom prisoners.
"You ought to let them out," he said.

"You'll surely be punished." "We will let them out after we've made noise enough," said Billy calmly.
"We'll probably be punished anyway, so we may as well make a noise." "Yes," added Drina, "we are going to make all the noise we can while we have the opportunity.

Billy, is everything ready ?" And before Selwyn understood precisely what was happening, he found himself the centre of a circle of madly racing children and dogs.

Round and round him they tore.

Billy yelled for the hurdles and Josephine knocked over some chairs and dragged them across the course of the route; and over them leaped and scrambled children and puppies, splitting the air with that same quality of din which had greeted him upon his entrance to his sister's house.
When there was no more breath left in the children, and when the dogs lay about, grinning and lolling, Drina approached him, bland and dishevelled.
"That circus," she explained, "was for your entertainment.