"Well, I know what I'd do——" Vi was beginning, when the "lights-out" gong sounded through the hall and the girls scurried wildly for their beds.
Amanda and Eliza were already in theirs, and Rose, coming in at the last minute, fairly flew into her nightgown and then scurried over to put out the one remaining light.
The room had been in silence and darkness for nearly five minutes when suddenly Laura leaned over and whispered to Vi.
"What would you do if a burglar got in?" she asked.
"I'd just get under the covers," said Vi, "and die off fright!"
CHAPTER XII
TOO MUCH TO EAT
If any one had told the three girls that the second day would hold more of excitement and pleasure than the first, they would not have believed it. But so it was.
Billie woke early that morning and found the sun shining gloriously through the window. It took her a minute or two to realize just where she was. Then she sat up in bed and looked across at her two sleeping chums.