Oh, I must speak to her!" "I think you are justified, if you can get anything out of her.

She'd tell you better than anybody else in the whole school." "I'll try my luck then." "I'll stand in the garden below and shout 'Cave!' if I hear anyone coming." To help her unfortunate room-mate seemed the first consideration to Ulyth, and she thought the end certainly justified the means.

She waited until after the tea interval, when most of the girls would be playing tennis or walking in the glade; then, making sure that Lizzie was watching in the garden below, she stole upstairs to the linen-room.

It was quite easy to drop from the window on to the top of the veranda, and not very difficult, in spite of the slope, to walk along to the end of the roof.

Here an angle of the old part of the house jutted out, and the open window of Rona's prison faced her only a couple of yards away.