Book Excerpt: ....thing to happen--only we didn't exactly know what. So we were very pleased when Father said--'I've asked Mr Foulkes to send his children here for a week or two. You know--the kids who came at Christmas. You must be jolly to them, and see that they have a good time, don't you know.'We remembered them right enough--they were little pinky, frightened things, like white mice, with very bright eyes. They had not been to our house since...