"I can let you know as soon as she comes in from her last class," volunteered Alicia.
"No, I'd rather not have it that way." Jane smiled whimsically. "It's had enough to have to go to work and deliberately plan this hateful business. It has to be gone through with. That's certain. We'll just take our chance of finding her in. When you hear us knock, I wish you'd open the door. It's all horrid, isn't it? I feel like a conspirator."
Jane made a gesture indicative of utter distaste for the purposed program.
"It's honest, anyhow. It's not backbiting and underhandedness," Alicia stoutly pointed out.
"No, it isn't," Jane soberly agreed. "That's the only thing that reconciles me to do it. It's dealing openly and aboveboard with treachery and spite."
CHAPTER XV
THE RECKONING
"Voila! We are ready. Let us advance!" proclaimed Adrienne with a smothered chuckle, when at ten minutes to six a determined trio left Adrienne's room on the fateful errand to the room next door.