What was his amazement to see--" "Time!" called the Snarker, who had his watch before him, and Hester had to stop.
Gregory came next.

His idea of the game was not very clear, to begin with, and he had some difficulty in reading what was written, so he was able to write very little, and that not too helpfully.

He therefore wrote words that were always near his heart: "-- a flying-machine." and that was all.
Then came Janet.

Always wishing to be kind and make things easy, she longed to get the story back into the spirit and period of poor little romantic Hester's opening passages.

But Gregory had spoiled everything.
Janet, however, did her best: "The young lord drew back with a start, for he could hardly believe his eyes.
"'What,' he exclaimed, 'is this strange mixture of wires and wings?
Can my father's astrologer have really done it at last after all these fruitless years?
He must indeed have been busy since I rode forth to battle.