This is Ulyth's; and there's the mistake she made that disqualified it." "Yours was put back last night ?" "I saw it safe myself, after Rona'd been juggling with it.

Where is Rona?
I believe she's at the bottom of this." "She's in the garden." "Then she must be fetched." "What's the matter?
What are you making a bother about ?" cried Rona, as an excited detachment of girls stopped her game of tennis and asked her a dozen questions at once.

"What have I done with Stephanie's pendant?
Why, I've done nothing with it, of course." "But you must have hidden it somewhere." "It's a mean trick to play on her." "You and Steph are always at daggers drawn." "Do go and put it back." "I can't think what you're talking about!" flared Rona.

"I've not even been inside the studio.

If a joke's being played on Stephanie, it's somebody else who's doing it, not me.