"Do you tell Miss Ellingwood everything that you can find out?"
Sarah laughed hysterically. "I don't find out anything to tell her. How should I?"
"Did you never tell her about your room-mates?"
"I never say nothing from them at all to nobody. I leave them alone. But they won't leave me alone. They made me throw water on Miss Ellingwood, they made me—" She looked about so wildly that the girls were frightened.
Gertrude put a steadying arm round her.
"You were right. We have been mean."
Sarah looked at her piteously. "Ach, I—I shouldn't have talked so. I—"
Ethel looked gravely into Gertrude's eyes.
"Yes, you should," she said to Sarah. "Now, come over to our room and I'll tie up your hands for you. You mustn't tell anybody that it was you that slid down the pole."
"No, ma'am. I wish I could go in my bed. If I don't go in my bed, I won't know my lessons for to-morrow."