The paths were paved with mother-of-pearl card counters, and the fountain was a silver and glass ash-tray, with a needlecase of filigree silver rising up from the middle of it; and the falling water was made quite nicely out of narrow bits of the silver paper off the chocolate Helen had given him at parting.

Palm trees were easily made--Helen had shown him how to do that--with bits of larch fastened to elder stems with plasticine.

There was plenty of plasticine among Lucy's toys; there was plenty of everything.
And the city grew, till it covered the table.

Philip, unwearied, set about to make another city on another table.

This had for chief feature a great water-tower, with a fountain round its base; and now he stopped at nothing.