We've been here a precious long time, and I shall be late for tea." "Never mind: come home and have tea with me.

I don't feel in much of a hurry to go up through that black hole." "We shan't mind it if it hasn't tumbled in since we came, and shut us up." "I say, don't!" cried Mike, with a look of horror.

"That might be true, you know." "Yes; but pigs might fly," cried Vince, laughing.

"I say, what a chap you are to take fright! Puzzle a stone place like that to tumble in.

A few bits might come off the roof, but even then we could crawl over them, for they must leave a hole where they come from.