I think that Tommy was the only really cheerful member of the party, for he skipped about and barked, running backwards and forwards into the mouth of the cave, as though to hurry our movements.
"Really," said Bastin, "it is quite unholy to see an animal going on in that way when it knows that it is about to descend into the bowels of the earth.

I suppose it must like them." "Oh! no," commented Bickley, "it only likes what is in them--like Arbuthnot.

Since that little beast came in contact with the Lady Yva, it has never been happy out of her company." "I think that is so," said Bastin.

"At any rate I have noticed that it has been moping for the last two days, as it always does when she is not present.

It even seems to like Oro who gives me the creeps, perhaps because he is her father.