The boys were up first, and made extremely noisy toilets in the washing-up
basin, and then Jack and Gregory went off to the farm for milk and butter
and eggs, and Mrs. Gosden, who seemed, early as it was, to be in the very
middle of a day's work, and who refused to believe that the boys were not
deceiving her when they denied having sore throats, gave them leave to
gather strawberries, so that their return to the Slowcoach was a new
triumph.
Their breakfast was chiefly scrambled eggs, ham, and strawberries, and by
ten o'clock, true to their bargain, they were out of the field and on the
highroad, and no sign of their camp remained, save a black circle caused by
the fire and a slight crushing of the grass all round it.
They had gone a very little way before Robert, who had already been to
Woodstock with the morning telegram, began to realize that he was in for a
blister on his left heel, and, on asking the others, he found that they
were not too comfortable either.
"This means," he told Mary, speaking to her in her oflicial capacity of
Regulator of Rests, "that we shall have to ride a good deal, because we
simply must go twelve miles today, or we shan't be at Stratford in time
for mother tomorrow afternoon.
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