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After morning school he repeated his attempt to ally himself with his former foes, but the result was decidedly unsatisfactory. Down in the box-room, a good-sized apartment boarded off from the gymnasium, Jack Vance was serving out a ration of plum-cake to a select party, consisting of his two chums and Carton, when the ex-Philistine strolled up and joined himself to the group.
"What is her name? How old is she? What is she like? When will she come? Why is she leaving school?" "Not very happy. Peggy. In the little box-room over the study. About fifteen, I believe. Haven't the least idea.
One of these was small, being little larger than a box-room, but to Mavis's eyes it presented the supreme advantage of being untenanted by any other patient. "We'd better 'ave most of the furniture out, 'ceptin' the bed and washstand," declared Mrs Gowler. "But where am I to keep my things?" asked Mavis. "Can't you 'ave your box jes' outside the door?
Then the four children, overcoming the priest's wrigglings and kickings, tied his legs with more rope. 'I thought, said Robert, breathing hard, and drawing the last knot tight, 'he'd have a try for OURS, so I got the ropes out of the box-room, so as to be ready. The girls, with rather white faces, applauded his foresight.
'I should feel a good deal safer in the box-room. And then, who's going to attack us? 'Well, you never know, replied Clarence; 'but, if they did come, it's something to feel we should be able to defend ourselves. 'Yes, Hilary, Cecily remarked, 'an army would certainly be a great convenience then. 'That would depend on what it did, said her sister.
The tapestry from her bedroom at Les Peuples was hung in the dining-room, which was also to serve as drawing-room, and Jeanne took especial pains over the arrangement of one of the rooms on the first floor, which in her own mind she had already named "Poulet's room;" she was to have the other one on that floor, and Rosalie was to sleep upstairs next to the box-room.
Suddenly, as the landlady's footsteps died away, there was the creak of a turning key, the handle revolved, and two thin hands darted out and lifted the tray form the chair. An instant later it was hurriedly replaced, and I caught a glimpse of a dark, beautiful, horrified face glaring at the narrow opening of the box-room. Then the door crashed to, the key turned once more, and all was silence.
The very cobbles of the street are scattered by them. Not a window remains in the place; all are shattered and many hang from their frames. The fronts of the houses have fallen out, and one sees glimpses of wretched domestic life: a baby's cradle hangs in mid-air, some tin boxes have fallen through from the box-room in the attic to the ground floor.
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