"The Lady Griselda of the Castle of the Lonely Lake requests you to meet her at the elm at the corner of the convent grounds after school to do something for the public safety."
Margery herself carried them to school and gave them to their owners, for it was her first day as postmistress.
"They were marked 'Immediate,' so I delivered them," she said to Trix and Amy, in the character of postmistress, with fine assumption of ignorance as to their contents.
Amy found her waiting with Trix when she appeared at the trysting-place a trifle late.
"Now she's come; what is it, Margery?" demanded Trix, who never could endure waiting, and had been fuming because Margery would not speak until Amy had arrived.
"It means that I can't stand this another moment," Margery burst out, glad to express her feelings. "I wouldn't be so scared every night as I was last night for anything. I want you to go with me to the Dismals, and see if that man's as bad as Katie says."
"I wouldn't go for the world," declared Amy, blanching at the thought.
"Nor I," echoed daring Trix. "You're such a scared cat, Margery, I don't see what you want to go for."
"It's because I am a scared cat," said Margery. "I'm afraid not to go. I should think you'd dare what I dare, Trix Lane, when you're always talking about being a boy."
"I suppose Jack would think we were brave," remarked Trix slowly.