“Meet me in the breakfast-room at eight, then. Do you know where it is? Just off the big dining-room.”
“What are you two hob-nobbing about?” asked Daisy, curiously, as she strolled over toward them.
“I’m just telling Miss Fairfield about the plan of the house,” said Ferris, innocently. “It’s well planned, isn’t it?”
“Very,” said Patty.
CHAPTER X
CHRISTMAS EVE
As Patty stepped out of her room into the hall the next morning, at eight o’clock, she found Hal Ferris already tiptoeing down the stairs. He put his finger to his lip with a great show of secrecy, which made Patty laugh.
“Why must we be so careful?” she whispered. “We’re not doing anything wrong.”