However, if you really must go, I think I _will_ get up.

It must be long past eight, and I want my breakfast awfully." The day so excitingly ushered in turned out a busy one.

As soon as he had finished his meal, Austin pounded off to invoke the immediate presence of Mr Snewin the builder, and before long there was a mighty bustle in the house.

The furniture had all to be removed from the scene of the disaster, the bed cleared of the _debris_, preparations made for the erection of light scaffolding for repairing the roof, and Austin himself installed, with all his books and treasures, in another bedroom overlooking a different part of the garden.

It was all a most enjoyable adventure, and even Aunt Charlotte forgot her terrors in the more practical necessities of the occasion.