"Now go away.

Go out of my room.

I don't like to see you near Betty.

Go away, do you hear!" and Anna vanished again into the darkness.
Though strong and secure in her own innocence, Kitty awoke in the morning with the feeling weighing heavily on her that though the matter would soon be ended, yet something very painful had to be faced first.
Kitty, though, was counting too much on her own guiltlessness, and the certainty of others believing in it; and she had more cause than she imagined for waking with a weight on her mind.
When the dreaded inquiry took place, and all the senior girls were called into the "study" to undergo a rigorous cross-examination, she soon found that Miss Richards was very far from accepting her unsupported denial as conclusive.
"Yes, but who can bear out your statement that you did not leave the room or the house throughout the evening ?" she asked sternly.
"Betty can," said Kitty.

"Betty was in the room with me all the time." "Ah! Betty! But she is very young, and very attached to you, and would of course be prejudiced." Kitty's cheeks flamed with indignation, and she had to set her teeth to keep herself from answering.
"Have you no older--more responsible witnesses ?" "No one could be more honest and truthful than Betty," said Kitty proudly.