"Then I'll come back." Susan put her bundle on the sofa, opened it, found nightgown and toilet articles on top.

She looked uncertainly about, rapidly undressed, got into the nightgown.

"I'll turn down the bed and lie on it until Auntie comes," she said to herself.

The bed was delightfully cool; the shuck mattress made soft crackling sounds under her and gave out a soothing odor of the fields.

Hardly had her head touched the pillow when she fell sound asleep.