Maria is gritting her teeth. She is trembling.<\/p>\n
\u201cShush, Linus,\u201d says Edmund.<\/p>\n
\u201cAha!\u201d realizes Maria loudly. \u201cI am hallucinating the presence of the children.\u201d<\/p>\n
She grins with a game determination, as if to make this so. She looks around. She looks past them. One eye twitches.<\/p>\n
\u201cIt is certainly not that they are actually<\/i> right here and squabbling killably,\u201d she announces loudly. \u201cThat would be too suicidal! No. They are scheming elsewhere. That is why I must quickly go inside and get back to my work \u2014 that is to say, destroying the secrets of the Marvelous Immortality Elixir!\u201d<\/p>\n
She scans Tom and Jane to make sure they\u2019re all right, carefully applies a band-aid to Jane\u2019s bleeding elbow, (\u201cImaginarily!\u201d she declares,) and tromps back inside.<\/p>\n
\u201cDo you think she noticed us?\u201d whispers Tom.<\/p>\n
\u201cJust shut up,\u201d sighs Jane.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
Maria is gritting her teeth. She is trembling. \u201cShush, Linus,\u201d says Edmund. \u201cAha!\u201d realizes Maria loudly. \u201cI am hallucinating the presence of the children.\u201d She grins with a game determination, as if to make this so. She looks around. She looks past them. One eye twitches. \u201cIt is certainly not that they are actually right […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":3601,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[14],"tags":[],"series":[5],"class_list":["post-3864","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-stomping-the-world-round-chapter-4","series-stwr"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"http:\/\/books.hitherby.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/02\/Just-Maria.jpg","_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/books.hitherby.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3864","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/books.hitherby.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/books.hitherby.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/books.hitherby.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/books.hitherby.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=3864"}],"version-history":[{"count":7,"href":"http:\/\/books.hitherby.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3864\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":6353,"href":"http:\/\/books.hitherby.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3864\/revisions\/6353"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/books.hitherby.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/3601"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/books.hitherby.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=3864"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/books.hitherby.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=3864"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/books.hitherby.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=3864"},{"taxonomy":"series","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/books.hitherby.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fseries&post=3864"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}