"First Aid Corps on duty, please! The difficulty is going to be how to get their clothes properly dried in a place like this." Mrs.Arnold, with Miss Bowes to look after her, went to the farm to seek fresh garments.

As for the girls, there was nothing for it but to go to bed for an hour or two, while a band of servers lighted a good fire, wrung the water from the drenched articles of clothing, and held them to the blaze.

Blankets were commandeered freely from other beds, and piled round the seven heroines, who, propped up with pillows, each had a kind of reception as she sipped her hot cocoa.
"We all of us forgot about the boat," said Rona suddenly.

"It's drifting upside down, and the oars are anywhere." "Never mind.

David Lewis will get it somehow, I suppose.