Then we'll get out on the roof, and have a
quiet day books and apples. I'm about fed up with adventures, so I
tell you."
The others told him the same thing.
"Now, think," said he "think as you never thought before how to
get rid of that Ugly-Wugly."
Everyone thought, but their brains were tired with anxiety and
distress, and the thoughts they thought were, as Mabel said, not
worth thinking, let alone saying.
"I suppose Jimmy's all right," said Kathleen anxiously.
"Oh, he's all right: he's got the ring," said Gerald.
"I hope he won't go wishing anything rotten," said Mabel, but
Gerald urged her to shut up and let him think.
"I think I think best sitting down," he said, and sat; "and sometimes
you can think best aloud. The Ugly-Wugly's real don't make any
mistake about that. And he got made real inside that passage. If we
could get him back there he might get changed again, and then we
could take the coats and things back."
"Isn't there any other way?" Kathleen asked; and Mabel, more
candid, said bluntly: "I'm not going into that passage, so there!"
"Afraid! In broad daylight," Gerald sneered.
"It wouldn't be broad daylight in there," said Mabel, and Kathleen
shivered.
"If we went to him and suddenly tore his coat off," said she "he is
only coats he couldn't go on being real then.
"Couldn't he!" said Gerald. "You don't know what he's like under
the coat.
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