We retired to the Amen Corner to talk it over. "If worse comes to worst," said Witch Winnie, "I know I can make a magnificent train out of the plush table-cloth in Madame's library."
"But how will you ever get it?"
"Emma Jane must ask her to lend it to us; she'll do anything for Emma Jane."
"Emma Jane declines to act in this emergency," said Miss Anton, firmly.
"You wouldn't be so mean!"
"But I would; Adelaide, please read Milly's letter again; I didn't half hear it."
"I must have dropped it in the Society hall; I will get it after dinner. If she had thought that Tib might be chosen to take her place, she would have done anything for the honor of the Amen Corner."
Here some one tapped at the door, and announced, "A letter for Miss Armstrong."
"It's from Milly!" exclaimed Adelaide, "and it looks as if it had been opened, and pasted up again."
"I thought Madame boasted that she never submitted her young ladies to that sort of espionage," said Witch Winnie.