And you brought back our kitten--the sandy and white one with black spots--when it strayed.

So I was quite willing to come and meet you when so told.

And knowing something of young gentlemen's peckers, owing to being in business once next door to a boys' school, I made so bold as to bring you a snack.' He reached a hand down behind the fallen pillar on which they sat and brought up a basket.
'Here,' he said.

And Philip, raising the lid, was delighted to find that he was hungry.

It was a pleasant basketful.