“That’s my affair.”

“You won’t tell?”

“No.”

“May I tell Aunt Sophy about the bandbox chock-full of funny things pushed under the bed?”

“If you do——”

Penelope danced a few feet away. She then stood in front of her sister and began to sway her body backwards and forwards.

“I see’d,” she began, “such a funny thing!”

“Penelope, you are too tormenting!”

“I see’d such a very funny thing!”

Miss Tredgold was seen approaching. Penelope looked round at her and then deliberately raised her voice.