"I won't lock the door till we've got the sheets in," she said.
They spent the rest of the day in anxiously thinking about the stranger's coming. When bedtime came, Daffy was almost glad.
"It seems quite a year since we saw the stranger," she said. "I do hope he'll manage to get in all right."
The little girls slept in two beds side by side in one night-nursery, Nurse and Bertie slept in the other; and the two rooms opened into each other, and the door between them was never shut.
When they were in bed Nurse left them, and went back to the day-nursery, where she and Jane sat and worked or read. It was still daylight, though the blinds were down, and directly they were left alone Freda set to work.
"We must leave our top sheets in case anybody sees. You take off your bottom one quick, Daffy, and I'll take off mine, and we must fold them up very small, and put the pillow-cases inside. There are two pillows to be covered, so we must have both of ours."
This was done after some trouble in folding them up. Then they crept back into bed again, each hugging her sheet, and waited to hear Nurse go downstairs. The time seemed long. Would she never go?
[CHAPTER VII]
Freda and Daffy in Trouble
DAFFY was getting sleepy. Suddenly Freda called to her in an excited whisper: