'"How did you hear?" said Clement.
"Well, well, little birds flit about the chairs of people who are tied to them. And it would be rather a sad thing if they did not, as they would be the last to hear so much, when it seems that they ought to be the first. So the news came, I won't say how."
"I will do so," said her father. "It came through a tradesman's lad, who comes to our house after yours, or who comes to it on the way to yours and to-day chose to come again on his way back."
"So Jellamy was the bird," said Mark.
"Well, anyhow we heard," said his aunt. 'But I should have liked to hear it from one of you, coming running down to tell me."
"We should have been down in a few minutes," said Justine.
"Would you, dear? But the minutes passed and nobody came. And so we came up to hear for ourselves."
"A bold step for anyone tied to a chair," muttered Clement.'
from A Family and a Fortune by I. Compton-Burnett (Chapter 4)
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