The Twins, though they were in that condition of subdued vivacity into which they always fell after a signal exploit that came to their mother's notice, were very pleasant companions; and the peaceful life and early hours of Little Deeping were grateful after the London whirl.

Also he had many talks with his sister on the matter of settling down in life, a course of action she frequently urged on him.
When he went the Twins felt a certain dulness.

It was not acute boredom; they were preserved from that by the fact that the Terror went every morning to study the classics with the vicar, and Erebus learned English and French with her mother.

Their afternoon leisure, therefore, rarely palled on them.
One afternoon, as they came out of the house after lunch, Erebus suggested that they should begin by ambushing Wiggins.

They went, therefore, toward Mr.Carrington's house which stood nearly a mile away on the outskirts of Little Deeping, and watched it from the edge of the common.