Ascending the stairs almost as quickly as he had gone down, he bade Harold try it with him.
'It's such fun! and mother won't care.

I've done it forty times,' he said, as Harold demurred; and then, as the temptation became too strong to be resisted, two boys instead of one rode down the banister and landed in the lower hall, and two pairs of little legs ran nimbly up the stairs just as the door opened and admitted the first arrival..