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Her room was a record of their sequence from week to week. And Jimbo knew exactly where to find them first; his mind was a time-table of flowers as well as of trains, dates of arrival, and stations where they grew. He knew it all exaccurately. This kind of fact with him was never wumbled. 'Soon the sabot de Venus will be in flower at the Creux du Van, but it takes time to find it.
He crossed his little legs and folded his arms. He was not going to express an opinion until he understood better what it was all about. He began to whisper to his sister. Another longish pause intervened. It was Jinny again who broke it. 'And "wumbled," she asked solemnly as though the future of everybody depended on it, 'what is wumbled, really? There's no such thing, is there?
The Review had replaced her customary Novel. She went about with it beneath her arm. Minks, feeling friendly and confidential, informed her that he, too, sometimes wrote, and when she noted the fact with a deferential phrase about 'you men of letters, he rose abruptly to the seventh heaven of contentment. Mother meanwhile, on the other side, took him bodily into her great wumbled heart.
But now he had discovered a big idea, true as the sun, and able, like the sun, to warm thousands of readers, all ready for it without knowing it. ... Rogers sat on thinking in the bright spring sunshine, smoking one cigarette after another. For the idea his cousin had wumbled over so fubsily had touched his heart, and for a long time he was puzzled to find the reason. But at length he found it.
'Wumbled! he cried, as the certainty burst upon him with the password. He stood close to her, opening his arms. Instantly she placed her golden palm upon his mouth, with fingers that were like soft star-rays. Her words, as she continued, were sweeter than the footfalls of the Pleiades when they rise above the sea.
One heard fragments of her sentences 'wumbled ... chronic ... busy monster. ... 'And two minutes later la famille anglaise was seriously at tea. What art thou, then? I cannot guess; But tho' I seem in star and flower To feel thee some diffusive power, I do not therefore love thee less. Love and Death, TENNYSON.
A pencil poked its nose out among the sheets, and it was clear he had fallen asleep while working. 'Wumbled! sighed Jimbo, pointing to the scribbled notes. But Monkey was busy pulling him out, and did not answer. Then Jimbo helped her. And Daddy came out magnificently as far as the head then stuck like Mother. They pulled in vain. Something in his head prevented complete release.
While the body sleeps the spirit may get into touch with helpful forces His French failed him. He wumbled painfully. 'Thought-forces possibly from braver minds, put in Rogers. 'Who knows? Sleep and dreaming have never really been explained. He recalled a theory of Minks. 'I dream a great deal, Miss Waghorn observed, eager to take part.
They knew they would only, get wumbled answers to their questions and remarks, and they did not dare to tease him. From time to time he lifted his eyes very bright they were and glanced round the table, dimly aware that he was in the midst of a stream of noisy chatter, but unable to enter it successfully at any point.
That's why the saints have halos. But Monkey did not hear this last remark, she was already in her father's bedroom, helping Jinny. Here there were no complications, no need for assistance from a Sweep, or Gardener, or Lamplighter. It was a case for pulling, pure and simple. Daddy was wumbled, nothing more. Body, mind, and heart were all up-jumbled.
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