We can always try," said Erebus cheerfully.
"Yes," said the Terror.
Warmed by this noble resolve, they moved quietly out of the wood.

It was not so difficult a matter as it may sound to move, even encumbered by bicycles, about the home wood, for it was not so carefully preserved as the woods farther away from the Grange; indeed, the keepers paid but little attention to it.

The Twins moved out of it safely and returned home with easy minds: it did not occur to either of them that they had been treating a princess with singular firmness.

Nor were they at all troubled about the acquisition of the peaches since some curious mental kink prevented them from perceiving that the law of meum and tuum applied to fruit.
Mrs.Dangerfield was presented with only two peaches at tea that afternoon; and she took it that the Twins had ridden into Rowington and bought them for her there.

When two more were forthcoming for her dessert after dinner, she reproached them gently for spending so much of their salary for "overseering" on her.