I didn't see the need of three girls for this business.
"The first two girls started explaining the thing to the third girl, and before they were half-way through the third girl began to giggle--she was the sort of girl who would giggle at anything.

That done, they fell to chattering like Jenny Wrens, all three together; and between every half- dozen words they looked across at me; and the more they looked at me the more the third girl giggled; and before they had finished they were all three giggling, the little idiots; you might have thought I was a clown, giving a private performance.
"When she was steady enough to move, the third girl came up to me; she was still giggling.

She said: "'If you get it, will you go ?' "I did not quite understand her at first, and she repeated it.
"'This cushion.

When you've got it, will you go--away--at once ?' "I was only too anxious to go.

I told her so.