"Sit still the whole morning without moving a muscle, for fear of breaking her—"
"Heart, with forty pearls and sixty diamonds. Fact, I assure you, my dear! I had it from—"
"A perfect brute, not fit for any one to—"
Here, Destiny knocked on the door; the round, rosy face of Miss Carey, the housekeeper, looked in.
"Girls, you really must go to bed. Miss Russell sent me to say so. Do you know what time it is?"
Grace Wolfe slipped like a shadow out of the window and was gone unseen; the assembly broke up with laughter and cheers for the Snowy and the Fluffy, and snatches of talk bubbling all the way along the corridor. When Peggy reached her room, she found the Scapegoat already there, sitting on the floor and chanting solemnly:
"I have nailed my Puggy's slippers
Down upon her closet floor.
She may pray with both her flippers,
But she'll never use them more!"