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as if Jevons had been a rabbit or a guinea-pig , and go away again . Somehow I always see him like that , making beds , stooping over something , doing something for one of them or for me . Sometimes they would burst in on him suddenly in his bedmaking and throw pillows at him , or it might be sponges , and there would be madness : two girls running amok and little Jevons flying before them through the house and squealing in his excitement . Once he went out to post a letter in the Grove before midnight and they locked him out and looked at him from the window of the front bedroom and defied him to enter , and he skipped round to the back and climbed up by the water-butt on to the drainpipe of the bathroom , and from the drainpipe , perilously , in through the window of his study , where they found him putting hair-brushes in Norah 's bed . After the drainpipe adventure -LRB- when they saw how game he was -RRB- they sobered down . I think it was that night that Norah said , `` We must n't _ kill _ Jimmy . That would never do . ''