Then nobody can complain." He lost no time setting to work on it, and worked till it was time to go down to the vicarage for his morning's lessons with the vicar.

He set to work again as soon as he returned; he worked all the afternoon; and he saw to it that Erebus worked, too.
In the middle of the afternoon Wiggins came.

He had spent a fruitless hour lying in wait on the common to scalp the Twins as they sallied forth into the world, and then had come to see what had kept them within their borders.

He was deeply impressed by the sight of the bicycles, but not greatly surprised: his estimation of the powers of his friends was too high for any of their exploits to surprise him greatly.

But he was somewhat aggrieved that they should have obtained their bicycles before he had obtained his.