Adam looks scornfully at Smitty - the one who screamed - who flushes and tried to make a joke of it. "They've landed! There's a faceless wonder here!"

It's just a girl with her hair over her face, anyone can see that, but she clearly knows the boys who were stealing their clothes and there's no reason to go easy on her. "Ah," Adam says, peering over the shorter one's shoulder, "the female of the species."

"What's going on now?" demands the schoolmaster peevishly.