"Who are these very dirty children?" she asked the grown-up Lamb (sometimes called St. Maur in these pages). "I don't know," he lied miserably. "Oh, Lamb! how _can_ you?" cried Jane,--"when you know perfectly well you're our own little baby brother that we're so fond of. We're his big brothers and sisters," she explained, turning to the lady, who with trembling hands was now turning her bicycle towards the gate, "and we've got to take care of him. And we must get him home before sunset, or I don't know whatever will become of us. You see, he's sort of under a spell--enchanted--you know what I mean!" Again and again the Lamb (Devereux, I mean) had tried to stop Jane's eloquence, but Robert and Cyril held him, one by each leg, and no proper explanation was possible. The lady rode hastily away, and electrified her relatives at dinner by telling them of her escape from a family of dangerous lunatics. "The little girl's eyes were simply those of a maniac. I can't think how she came to be at large," she said. When her bicycle had whizzed away down the road, Cyril spoke gravely. "Hilary, old chap," he said, "you must have had a sunstroke or something. And the things you've been saying to that lady! Why, if we were to tell you the things you've said when you are yourself again, say to-morrow morning, you wouldn't ever understand them--let alone believe them! You trust to me, old chap, and come home now, and if you're not yourself in the morning we'll ask the milkman to ask the doctor to come." The poor grown-up Lamb (St. Maur was really one of his Christian names) seemed now too bewildered to resist. "Since you seem all to be as mad as the whole worshipful company of hatters," he said bitterly, "I suppose I _had_ better take you home. But you're not to suppose I shall pass this over. I shall have something to say to you all to-morrow morning." "Yes, you will, my Lamb," said Anthea under her breath, "but it won't be at all the sort of thing you think it's going to be." In her heart she could hear the pretty, soft little loving voice of the baby Lamb--so different from the affected tones of the dreadful grown-up Lamb (one of whose names was Devereux)--saying, "Me love Panty--wants to come to own Panty." "Oh, let's go home, for goodness' sake," she said. "You shall say whatever you like in the morning--if you can," she added in a whisper. It was a gloomy party that went home through the soft evening. During Anthea's remarks Robert had again made play with the pin and the bicycle tyre, and the Lamb (whom they had to call St. Maur or Devereux or Hilary) seemed really at last to have had his fill of bicycle-mending. So the machine was wheeled.