"And she is every bit as guilty as we are," added Eva Larry.
"Hush!" commanded Agnes. "Somebody'll hear you."
"What if?"
"We don't want Trix to say that we dragged her into our trouble when she was lucky enough to escape."
"And I'd just like to know how she did escape," murmured Myra.
"I think Mr. Marks is just as mean!" exclaimed Mary Breeze. "Miss Lederer said I had a good chance to be Bright Thoughts—she would have picked me for that part. And now I can't be in the play at all!"
"Goodness, no! We can't even 'carry out the dead,' as my brother calls it," said another girl. "The door is entirely shut to us."
"We all ought to have had a bright thought and have stayed out of that farmer's field," growled Eva. "Mean old hunks!"
"Who?" cried Agnes.
"That Buckham man."