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We'll sit here very comfortably till you come back: it won't take you long. Thomas will go too, but give us in the luncheon-basket first." The men, being refreshed from the basket, set off with the horses, leaving the ladies getting rapidly snowed up in the carriage.
Then there were English papers to buy, and, of course, we must have a luncheon-basket.... The smell of the musty S.-E. & C.R. compartment was the scent of eastern roses. We sniffed with joy in the tunnels. We read all the notices with care. Nearing London we became silent. Quite disregarding the order to lower the blinds, we gazed from the bridge at a darkened London and the searchlight beams.
It was so very beautiful that the Mole could only hold up both fore-paws and gasp: "O my! O my! O my!" The Rat brought the boat alongside the bank, made her fast, helped the still awkward Mole safely ashore, and swung out the luncheon-basket.
The car, the luncheon-basket, the rare wine, the crest on the silver, the very candor of the wretch in giving his real name, his instant recognition of "Jimmy" Devar's mother, the hints of a childhood passed in Sussex why, even the aunt he spoke of on Derby Day must be Susan St.
Peterkin in the other; but it was difficult to divide the little boys, as all wished to take charge of the cats. The drive, too, proved longer than was expected, six miles instead of four. When they reached their cousin's door, the "barge" was already standing there. "It has brought our luncheon-basket!" exclaimed Solomon John. "I am glad of it," said Agamemnon, "for I feel hungry enough for it."
It is customary, for instance, in travelling, when you open your luncheon-basket, to offer to share its contents with any strangers who may chance to be fellow-passengers. Naturally, it is merely a form of politeness, and, in an ordinary way, no one thinks of accepting it everyone has his own provision, or is intending to lunch somewhere on the way; but it is by no means an empty form.
Jupille trotted before us, carrying his rod in one hand, a luncheon-basket and a fish-bag in the other. He turned round and gave us a look at each cross-road, smiled beneath his heavy moustache, and went on faster than before. I felt sure that something out of the way was about to happen, and that the silent quill-driver was tasting a quiet joke. I had not guessed the whole truth.
He looped the painter through a ring in his landing-stage, climbed up into his hole above, and after a short interval reappeared staggering under a fat wicker luncheon-basket. "Shove that under your feet," he observed to the Mole, as he passed it down into the boat. Then he untied the painter and took the sculls again. "What's inside it?" asked the Mole, wriggling with curiosity.
I didn't dare face the restaurant car, but I got a luncheon-basket at Leeds and shared it with the fat woman. Also I got the morning's papers, with news about starters for the Derby and the beginning of the cricket season, and some paragraphs about how Balkan affairs were settling down and a British squadron was going to Kiel.
If they wished to go to Mattapan they could go; if to Gooseberry, they must wait till the 5 P.M. train. Mrs. Peterkin was in despair. Their return train was 3.30; how could 5 P.M. help them? Mr. Peterkin, with instant decision, proposed they should try something else. Why should not they take their luncheon-basket across some ferry? This would give them practice. The family hastily agreed to this.
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