"Yes," Mrs. Baird assured them. "She must have been in the building when you started out."
"Where?" Betty demanded.
"In the bath-tub," Mrs. Baird said, hurriedly. "I'll explain it to you later. Now do go and change; you must be very wet. I'll have some hot soup for you in my sitting-room. Come as soon as you can. I'll excuse you from study hour."
The girls hurried upstairs without a word. In Senior Alley they met Fanny.
"Do you know where Maud Banks is?" Betty asked her.
"Yes; she's in her room," Fanny said; "where have you all—"
"Go up and tell her to come down here this minute," Betty interrupted her; "please, Fanny, like a dear," she added as an afterthought.
Fanny went up to the corridor and returned with Maud.
Polly and Lois and Betty were all changing their clothes in their separate rooms. Maud stood in the hall between, with the astonished Fanny.
"Did you get lost?" Betty asked the first question.