Everybody else on the landing is in bed." Miss Lodge put out the light and walked away, with a final warning against further conversation.

Rona was asleep in a few minutes, breathing calmly and peacefully as was her wont, but Ulyth lay awake for a long time watching a shadow on the wall cast from the beech-tree outside.

Where had Rona got her chocolates?
The answer was perfectly plain.

With the little brooch for evidence there could be no mistake.
"She's not so bad as the others, because I really don't think she quite realizes even yet what school honour means.

But Tootie and her scouts know.