If I could see her even for a few minutes I believe she would tell me.

Perhaps Miss Teddington frightened her.

Poor Rona! She must be so utterly miserable.

Could I possibly get a word with her, I wonder ?" She talked the matter over with Lizzie.
"If I ask Miss Bowes, she'll probably say no," lamented Ulyth.
"Then I shouldn't ask," returned Lizzie.

"We've not been definitely forbidden to see Rona." "The door's locked." "You've only to climb out of the linen-room window on to the roof of the veranda." "Why, so I could.