Then, half an hour later, while rolling out the paste for a pie-crust, she imparted the news to Lavinia.
"It's to happen on May-day, Lavinia.

The Major had word of it this morning, and--only think!--Satan is to be bound for a thousand years." "Law, miss!" said Lavinia.

"Apprentice ?" Cai Tamblyn heard of it in the garden, which was really a small flagged courtyard leading to the terrace, which again was really a small, raised platform with a table and a couple of chairs, where the Major sometimes smoked his pipe and overlooked the harbour and the shipping.

Along each side of the courtyard ran a flower-bed, and in these Cai Tamblyn grew tulips and verbenas, according to the season, and kept them scrupulously weeded.

He was stooping over his tulips when Miss Marty told him of the Millennium.
"What's that ?" he asked, picking up a slug and jerking it across the harbour wall.
"It's a totally different thing from the end of the world.