Hee hee yes as I am now 41 I had to cringe slightly at that bit. I also felt that a lot of Kit's expressions were rather too "English" to be coming from an American boy. I wonder if Blyton had visited the USA by that point in her life? It seems to me that the drawling accent was the only thing she knew about Americans. As it was written during the second world war there must have been plenty of American servicemen around to pick up the idioms from. Perhaps she never met any or maybe she felt that English children would'nt understand words like Closet and Drapes. Or would she, in wartime, have felt that typical British language was more patriotic somehow?Anita Bensoussane wrote:[
when Betty comments to a man celebrating his 42nd birthday: "Oh, aren't you old! Never mind - you're very nice."
Anita
The cake issue sounds like another of her little continuity errors. Unless the candles were somehow placed in the centre of the cake and they ate around the edges then they would have been chewing hot candles.