Nobody else can get into Polistarchia, you know.' 'There's me.' 'Oh, you're Deliverer too.' 'Thank you,' said Lucy gratefully.

'But there's Helen.' 'She was only on the Island, you know; she couldn't come to Polistarchia.

Look out!' The bucket was descending again, and instead of splashing in the water it bumped on the deck.
'You go first,' said Philip to Lucy.
'And you,' said Max to Brenda.
'Oh, I'll go first if you like,' said Philip.
'Yes,' said Max, 'I'll go first if you like, Brenda.' You see Philip felt that he ought to give Lucy the first chance of escaping from the poor _Lightning Loose_.

Yet he could not be at all sure what it was that she would be escaping to.

And if there was danger overhead, of course he ought to be the one to go first to face it.