“Wait until we see what is in the note,” Janet proposed. “Open it, Gale.”
Gale lit the light again, under its protective shield, and picked up the square white envelope lying on the floor. She turned it over in her hand. There was no address upon it. She tore it open and while the other girls waited read the few words. She stared retrospectively at the floor.
“Well?” Carol hissed. “Is it a secret?”
“What? Oh——” Gale turned to the note again. “It says ‘Do not interfere in affairs that are none of your concern.’”
“Is that all?” Carol said in disappointment. “No—no threats?”
“What can it mean?” Phyllis whispered to Gale.
“Just what it says,” Janet declared bluntly. “We are to mind our own business—or else.”
“Or else what?” Carol demanded.
“Mind our own business,” Madge repeated. “But what have we interfered in?”
“True,” Valerie admitted. “We haven’t done anything.”