if that is more convenient; but I must first find out how the water works."
"Just fancy you twenty and me eighteen! What young creatures we shall be! Oh, Augusta dear, do you know I feel quite frightened. What shall we do alone in London with no one to look after us?"
"Don't talk nonsense," said Miss Semaphore crossly. "We have only to consider our appearance. We shan't really be so ridiculously young, you know. I have no doubt we shall retain our present minds and experience, and be perfectly well able to manage for ourselves. Of course I shall make all enquiries to-morrow as to the effects and act accordingly. And for goodness sake, Prudie, if it is successful, don't keep remembering and talking about things that you could not possibly have seen or known if you were really only eighteen. That is just the sort of stupid thing you are likely to do. We must carefully look out the proper date and avoid remembering anything before that."
"Don't you think, dear," said Miss Prudence after a pause, "it will be well to go away from here before trying the experiment, away to some place where we are not known? It will be so awkward else."
