“He’s a bad boy not to answer,” said Mary impatiently.
Muffs had a feeling that something had happened to him in the night but she couldn’t remember what it was. Together, she and Mary went over to the window and looked out. There was Mrs. Tyler walking toward the barn still looking for Tommy. Right beside the barn was what Muffs knew must be the A-coop because a dear little white rabbit was jumping about inside of it.
“They call it an A-coop because it’s in the shape of an A,” Mary explained, “only there are too many bars across it.”
“I think so too,” Muffs agreed. “Bunny Bright Eyes must feel as if he’s in prison. Let’s go down and talk to him.”
When they were halfway there they met Mrs. Tyler and her eyes were red as if she had been crying.
“Have you seen Tommy?” she asked.
Muffs tried harder than ever to remember what had happened in the night. He had come into her room and whispered something. It must have been something about a fire.
“I think,” the little girl said in a voice that didn’t sound sure, “I think that he went to see a fire.”
Mrs. Tyler put her hand to her heart. “Don’t tell me, child! Whatever makes you think that?”
So Miss Muffet told what she remembered of Tommy’s visit to their room in the night.