Publisher's Synopsis
They were not railway children to begin with. I don't suppose they had ever thoughtabout railways except as a means of getting to Maskelyne and Cook's, the Pantomime, Zoological Gardens, and Madame Tussaud's. They were just ordinary suburban children, and they lived with their Father and Mother in an ordinary red-brick-fronted villa, withcoloured glass in the front door, a tiled passage that was called a hall, a bath-room with hotand cold water, electric bells, French windows, and a good deal of white paint, and 'everymodern convenience', as the house-agents say.There were three of them. Roberta was the eldest. Of course, Mothers never havefavourites, but if their Mother HAD had a favourite, it might have been Roberta. Next camePeter, who wished to be an Engineer when he grew up; and the youngest was Phyllis, whomeant extremely wel
