Wet Magic - Edith Nesbit - Bog

The children went, and looked once more in the faces of the King and Queen of the Under Folk, but now they did not know those faces, which seemed to them only the faces of some very nice strangers. "I think Reuben's jolly lucky, don't you?" said Mavis. "Yes," said Bernard. "So do I," said Cathay. "I wish Aunt Enid had let me bring the aquarium," said Francis. "Never mind," said Mavis, "it will be something to live for when we come back from the sea, and everything is beastly."