If you are sleeping in your pyjamas, you spring from the bed, and only add to the confusion; if you are wearing a less showy garment, you stop where you are and shout commands, which are utterly unheeded.

The simplest plan is to leave it to the eldest boy.

He does get them out after a while, and closes the door upon them.

It re-opens immediately, and one, generally Muriel, is shot back into the room.

She enters as from a catapult.