Sylvia glanced at Evelyn; then her face flushed, her eyes brightened, and she said emphatically:
“I know; and dear little Evelyn will tell you herself.—Won’t you, darling—won’t you?”
Evelyn looked from one to the other.
“You are enough, both of you, to drive me mad,” she said. “Do you think for a single moment that I am going to speak against myself? I hate you, Sylvia, as much as I ever loved you.”
Before either girl could prevent her she slipped away, and flying round the shrubberies, was lost to view.
“Then she did do it?” said Audrey. “She told you?”
Sylvia shut her lips.
“I must not say any more,” she answered.
“But, Sylvia, it is no secret. Miss Henderson knows; there is circumstantial evidence. Mother told me last night. Evelyn will be exposed before the whole school.”
Now Jasper, for wise reasons, had said nothing to Sylvia of Evelyn’s proposed flight to The Priory, and consequently she was unaware that the naughty girl had no intention of exposing herself to public disgrace.