"Unbiased spectators of a dramatic scene are always desirable; and it won't be difficult to arrange your presence, for the business will need a little stage-managing.

You watch the prince, Pollyooly, and see how far he goes down the beach, so that we can arrange the exact place for his instruction." The next day Pollyooly followed the prince to the end of his royal progress twice; and she had little doubt that she would be able to draw him into the battle for which she yearned, for he never saw her without scowling darkly upon her.
On the second day the Honourable John Ruffin returned from his golf in time to lunch with the two children; and he informed Pollyooly that he proposed to spend the afternoon on the sand with them.

They found Mrs.
Gibson with her children; and she accompanied them to the spot at which the prince usually turned in his course.

Twenty yards beyond it the Honourable John Ruffin bade Pollyooly build a castle; and then he and Mrs.Gibson left her and the Lump to build it, and retiring to the sea-wall forty yards away, they sat down and fell into polite conversation.

As they left her, the Honourable John Ruffin's last words to Pollyooly were: "I don't forbid you to scratch him.