“Hallo, Eeyore!” said Rabbit. “ There you are! Where have you been?” Eeyore took no notice of them.

“Good morning, Christopher Robin,” he said, brushing away Roo and Piglet, and sitting down on The Wolery . “Are we alone?”

“Yes,” said Christopher Robin, smiling to himself.

“I have been told⁠—the news has worked through to my corner of the Forest⁠—the damp bit down on the right which nobody wants⁠—that a certain Person is looking for a house. I have found one for him.”

“Ah, well done,” said Rabbit kindly.

Eeyore looked round slowly at him, and then turned back to Christopher Robin.