What do you think, Reg ?" Reg sighed and groaned and said, "If we must we must"; and so, instead of going in at their own door, they knocked at the next.
The tinkle of a piano upstairs, and the sound of Sam's voice, audible even in the street, announced only too unmistakably that the family was at home, and a collection of pot hats and shawls in the hall betrayed the appalling fact, when it was _too_ late to retreat, that the Shucklefords had visitors! Mrs Shuckleford came out and received them with open arms.
"'Ow 'appy I am to see you and the boys," said she.

"I suppose you saw the extra lights and came in.

Very neighbourly it was.

We thought about sending you an invite, but didn't like while you was in black for your 'usband.

But it's all the same now you're here.