After the psammead puffed itself up and froze, they knew it was dead. They all went their separate ways. Each and every one of them was dreadfully unhappy. I cannot remember what their names were or who they were, I cannot tell you because it was a book someone had read to me when I was a child. I did find another copy of the book later, but I have lost it again now.
Let’s get back to the lines and spaces F-A-C-E in the spaces and “Every Green Bus Drives Frantically”
“Are you sure it’s ‘frantically’?”
“Of course”
“I thought it was ‘fast’…”
With that, they saw another green bus speeding around the corner. There were hundreds of children sitting on it, standing on it, leaning out the windows and singing:
“The wheels on the bus go round and round…”
The four children, now adults, were all walking along the same bit of pavement as the bus went speeding past.
“Don’t I know you?”
They were, of course, four of the five children.
“Where’s [] gone?” the baby asked.
None of them knew. What they “did” know was that none of them had used up the psammead’s last wish he had granted them and yet they had found each other again.
[] was actually sitting on a "Dial a Bus" at the time. It was travelling in the opposite direction. She saw the four of them, but it wasn't until afterwards she realized who they were.
the psammead is a mythical sand fairy creature from “Five Children and It” by E. E. Nesbit