“I hope she will remain mad with me as long as we are both at Pinewood!” cried Nancy, desperately, and then she ran out of the room to hide the tears of anger and disappointment which she could no longer keep back.
CHAPTER XIV
HEAPS OF TROUBLE
Nancy wept as she had never wept since coming to Pinewood Hall. But she was weeping as much for rage as for sorrow. Cora’s insulting words, and her cruelty, had lashed Nancy’s indignation to the boiling point.
She could spoil all their fun on this evening. She knew where all the goodies were hidden. Most of them were in her closet, and in Cora’s. And her money had paid for every scrap that had been smuggled in from the Clintondale caterer’s and from the delicatessen store and grocery.
She could not only stop the girls from having the spread in Number 30; but she could stop their having it at all.
However, the heat of her passion was soon over. She bathed her eyes and flushed face and went down to supper without seeing Cora again.
She did not sit near the Montgomery clique at table, anyway; but she heard them talking and laughing during the meal, and afterward some of them passed where Nancy sat and looked at her oddly.