dodge them. He was very disappointed when Jane Ann told him that even dodgy rabbits got eaten by tigers in India. "Even very dodgy rabbits?" he asked wistfully. "Yes," said Jane Ann, "even very dodgy rabbits." But she felt so sorry for him when she said this that she took off his pink ribbon and hid it away in a drawer, in case she felt she couldn't leave him behind in the morning.
They were all to see her off. She arranged them in the window—Horse and Cart, Horse, Ball and Rabbit—so that she would be able to wave to them for quite a long way. Of course, after you had gone a long way you had to turn to the right, and then you wouldn't see them any more. That was when she would first open her box, because she would be feeling so lonely. It was wonderful how unlonely chocolate made you.
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