“Hear, hear,” said Jimmy. “But what about a few casualties on the other side for a change? I’m feeling rather bloodthirsty this morning. Tell me, Bundle, would you recognise any of these people if you saw them?”

Bundle hesitated.

“I think I should recognise No. 5,” she said at last. “He’s got a queer way of speaking⁠—a kind of venomous, lisping way⁠—that I think I’d know again.”

“What about the Englishman?”

Bundle shook her head.

“I saw him least⁠—only a glimpse⁠—and he’s got a very ordinary voice. Except that he’s a big man, there’s nothing much to go by.”