they were not railway children to begin with. i don't suppose they had ever thought about 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,with coloured glass in the front door,a tiled passage that was called a hall,a bathroom witth hot and cold water, electric bells,french windows, and a good deal of white paint,and every modren convenience' , as the house-agents say