We'd earn our livings as quick-change artistes any day.

Is that Elvira?
Oh, thanks! Put the teapot down there, please.
What a huge plate of bread and butter.

We'll never eat it! Mary, if you're ready you might be uncovering the grub." The girls had laid everything in preparation for their feast, and, to protect their dainties from flies, had put sheets of tissue paper over the table.

Mary lifted these deftly, but as she removed them her smug satisfaction changed to a howl of dismay.

Instead of the tempting dainties which they had placed there with their own hands stood a circle of bricks and stones.
For a moment all three gazed blankly at the awful sight.