and hid ourselves in another passage before we dared draw breath.
\"We are in the front of the house now,\" she whispered. \"We must find the back stairs.\"
Finally the suspense became unsupportable. Having crept back to the beginning of the passage, we peeped around the corner. There they crouched waiting, Punch and the Devil, the latter still masked.
They sprang at us and we fled back through the passage. We were quicker than they. There was a door around the corner,
and hid ourselves in another passage before we dared draw breath.
\"We are in the front of the house now,\" she whispered. \"We must find the back stairs.\"
Finally the suspense became unsupportable. Having crept back to the beginning of the passage, we peeped around the corner. There they crouched waiting, Punch and the Devil, the latter still masked.
They sprang at us and we fled back through the passage. We were quicker than they. There was a door around the corner,
