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if it only makes us unhappy.’
    â€˜I want revenge,’ said Dorinda.
    â€˜On Mrs. Taper and Catherine Crumb?’
    â€˜And on all the village people who stuck pins in us as well.’
    â€˜Well, I think you’re perfectly right. But how are we going to do it without getting more pins stuck in us, or being made to cry in some other way?’
    â€˜I don’t know. But you can think of something, Dinah. You always have good ideas.’
    â€˜I’m beginning to think of something already,’ said Dinah. ‘You remember how frightened all the village people were when a grizzly bear walked into Mr. Horrabin the ironmonger’s?’
    â€˜I remember,’ said Dorinda. ‘Though the bear didn’t do anything except give Mr. Horrabin an envelope with Sir Lankester Lemon’s name and address on it.’
    â€˜He just wanted to get into Sir Lankester’s zoo,’ said Dinah. ‘But everybody was terribly frightened, and quite a lot of people climbed up trees to get away from him.’
    â€˜He was a very nice bear,’ said Dorinda, ‘and he’s still in the zoo. I saw him there not very long ago.’
    â€˜Well, we’re going to frighten people just as badly as he did.’
    â€˜Oh, how?’ asked Dorinda. ‘Do tell me how!’
    â€˜I shall tell you to-morrow,’ said Dinah, ‘as soon as I have quite made up my mind.’
    â€˜It will be lovely to have our revenge,’ said Dorinda.
    Dinah went to a table on which stood a large blue-and-white jug of milk, and poured out two glasses. She gave one to Dorinda.
    â€˜You remember,’ she asked, ‘how Father was always drinking toasts? To the King, and to Absent Friends, and to the Regiment, and the Memory of Nelson, and that sort of thing? Well, we’re going to drink a toast. To Revenge!’
    â€˜To Revenge!’ said Dorinda, and drank her milk so quickly that she nearly choked. When she was feeling better, she asked, ‘What are you going to tell me to-morrow?’
    Dinah tiptoed to the door and quietly opened it to make sure there was no one on the other side listening at the keyhole. Then she tiptoed back and whispered, ‘As soon as we are better, and quite strong again, I’m going to Mrs. Grimble’s, and she will help us to do something really dreadful!’

Chapter Five
    It was several weeks later. Lying between the roots of an oak-tree at the edge of the Forest of Weal, Dorinda waited patiently for her sister. She had wanted very much to go with Dinah to see Mrs. Grimble, but Dinah had said no. Mrs. Grimble, she explained, wasn’t really fond of visitors, and it would be a pity to upset her by taking someone whom she didn’t know. Because if that happened, she would simply make herself invisible, and they might waste the whole morning looking for her and finding nothing. And sometimes, to people who went to see her merely out of curiosity, she was extremely rude, and shouted at them in a very frightening way. Everybody was agreed that one of the most alarming things in the world was to be called rude names by an invisible Mrs. Grimble.
    It would be wiser, then, said Dinah, for her to go alone; and Dorinda, though naturally disappointed, agreed. Dorinda nearly always agreed with her sister, whom she admired very much because she was clever and had lovely yellow hair. And Dinah, for her part, admired Dorinda very much because she was brave and had beautiful dark hair.
    So Dorinda waited patiently, and after a long time she saw Dinah walking along an aisle in the forest, and ran to meet her. Both of them were looking very well, and feeling perfectly strong, because they had long since stopped crying, and had eaten a good supper the night before and a still larger breakfast that morning.
    â€˜What did Mrs. Grimble say?’ cried Dorinda. ‘Is she going to help us? What did she look like? When are we going to have our revenge? What