"Bertha and Mabel snatched their biscuits?" she repeated.
"Yes; we stopped that though."
"I never saw it!"
"They took jolly good care you shouldn't."
"Why didn't you come and tell me?"
Peachy looked embarrassed.
"Well, if you really want to know," she blurted out, "you're so aloof and superior nobody cares to come and tell you anything. We managed it by ourselves."
Rachel winced as if Peachy had struck her a blow.
"I'm sorry if—if that's how I seem to you," she faltered. "I must have failed utterly as head girl if you can't confide in me. The prefects want to be the friends of all the school."
Peachy shrugged her shoulders eloquently.