Tornak the Terrible sat in his cave, trying to make his son finish his breakfast. "If you don't eat it all up, you'll never grow up big and strong like me.
Barnacle Bill woke with a start, then he remembered where he was and relaxed. He'd had a lovely tea and then gone out onto the lawn and sat down on a deckchair to admire his paddle steamer.
Esmerelda and Dulcibella sat miserably by their fire. They had a large cauldron full of water hanging from a tripod made of sticks and had been trying to get it to boil all morning.