They waited until the door bell announced Chuck's arrival. Phyllis flew down the stairs to meet him.
"Here," he said, by way of greeting and he handed her a white mitten.
Phyllis took it eagerly; it had a blue border, and it was handmade after a pattern of long ago.
"Nannie always makes them," Chuck explained. "Where's the one you found?"
"Come up here and I'll show you."
Janet gave the glasses to Chuck as soon as he entered the snuggery and Phyllis pointed to the roof below and using as few words as she possibly could she explained about the caretaker and Miss Pringle.
"I've got to get that mitten," Chuck announced. "Is there a window below this to your roof?"
"Yes, from the butler's pantry," Phyllis told him. "You could crawl along the fence to that roof easily. It's only a little way."
"Then I'll do it now," Chuck decided.
"Oh, but you mustn't," Phyllis protested. "If any one saw you from one of the windows they'd know what you were doing and then all sorts of awful things might happen."