What have you done with mine ?" "Vanished under the wizard's wand," mocked Rona.
"Give it me this instant!" cried Stephanie angrily, shaking Rona by the arm.
Rona had been standing upon one leg, and the unexpected assault completely upset her balance.

She toppled, clutched at Doris, and fell, bumping her head against the corner of the table.

It was a hard blow, and as she got up she staggered.
"I feel--all dizzy!" she gasped.
An officious junior, quite unnecessarily, ran for Miss Lodge, magnifying the accident so much in her highly coloured account that the mistress arrived on the scene prepared to find Rona stretched unconscious.

Seeing that the girl looked white and tearful, she ordered her promptly to bed.
"It may be nothing, but any rate you will be better lying down," she decreed.

"Go downstairs, girls, all of you.