“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.