And it was
half-past four when they jumped out of a town-bound tram and
entered the gates again to pick up their charge.
Such an afternoon as they had had! Once inside the Aquarium,
even Pip had put his conscience qualms on one side, and bent all
his energies to enjoying himself thoroughly. And Judy was like
a little mad thing. She spent a shilling of her money on the
switchback railway, pronouncing the swift, bewildering motion
"heavenly." The first journey made Pip feel sick, so he
eschewed a repetition of it, and watched Judy go off from time to
time, waving gaily from the perilous little car, almost with his
heart in his mouth. Then they hired a pair of roller skates each,
and bruised themselves black and blue with heavy falls on the
asphalt. After that they had a ride on the merry-go-round, but
Judy found it tame after the switchback, and refused to squander
a second threepence upon it, contenting herself with watching Pip
fly round, and madly running by his side, to keep up as long as
she could. They finished the afternoon with a prolonged
inspection of the fish-tanks, a light repast of jam tarts of
questionable freshness, and twopennyworth of peanuts.
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