At length he concluded--wrapped her in a piece of paper, and placed her on the top of the chintz tester of his bed, where there was just room between it and the ceiling: that would serve till he bore her to some better sanctuary.

In the meantime she was safe, and the boy was the blessedest boy in creation.
These things done, they were just in the humour to have a lark with Betty.

So they unbolted the door, rang the bell, and when Betty appeared, red-faced and wrathful, asked her very gravely and politely whether they were not going to have some dinner before they went back to school: they had now but twenty minutes left.

Betty was so dumfoundered with their impudence that she could not say a word.

She did make haste with the dinner, though, and revealed her indignation only in her manner of putting the things on the table.