"Now we have it!" she exclaimed.

"It's a game of gossip: Arthur tells Ella, Ella tells Henrietta, and Henrietta tells----" "Don't laugh, please, mama," Mildred begged.

"Of course Arthur didn't tell anybody.

It's roundabout enough, but it's true.

I know it! I hadn't quite believed it, but I knew it was true when he got so red.