"Oh, we should be caught!"
"No, we shouldn't. If we manage well, nobody will see us, and it won't take ten minutes. There's plenty of time before tea. Who'll come?"
No one spoke. The adventure was so serious that each girl felt rather doubtful about undertaking it, and shook her head.
"Well, you are a set of cowards," said Hazel. "I wish Connie Camden wasn't having her music lesson; she'd go in a second. Linda, you might."
"Don't, Linda," pleaded Sylvia. "It really isn't worth it. I shan't."
"Linda isn't bound to ask your leave," said Hazel sharply. "She can do as she likes, I suppose. Come, Linda. It would be such a joke!"
"I'm sure Marian wouldn't let me go," said Gwennie, "or go herself either. She's at her practising now."
"All right! I don't want either of you, nor Jessie Ellis. But, Nina, you like a little fun, I know. Come with Linda and me."
"I didn't say I would," faltered Linda.
"Yes, you will, and Nina too. We three are the only ones in the class with an ounce of courage."