'We've been nearly an hour,' said Anthea. ![]() 'You must have bolted your breakfast most unwholesomely,' it said, 'you can't have been five minutes over it.' When breakfast had been cleared away-it was a very nice breakfast with hot rolls to it, a luxury quite out of the common way-Anthea went and dragged out the bath, and woke the Psammead. And that was as well, for she would never have consented to allow the girls to keep an animal and a bath of sand under their bed. And it was soon plain that in the Psammead's opinion old Nurse was still a servant, although she had now a house of her own, for she never noticed the Psammead at all. Now, of course, you see that the Psammead's being where it was, was the consequence of one of their wishes, and therefore was a Psammead-wish, and as such could not be noticed by the servants. Therefore they had met it (and it was jolly lucky for the Psammead, as Robert pointed out). And when they parted from the Psammead their last wish had been that they should meet it again. Long ago-that is to say last summer-the children, finding themselves embarrassed by some wish which the Psammead had granted them, and which the servants had not received in a proper spirit, had wished that the servants might not notice the gifts which the Psammead gave.
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