"Ask who's there," advised Judy from her couch.
"I don't dare," said Nannie.
"I don't dare," said Amelia.
So that it was little timid Anne, after all, who gathered up her courage and went to the foot of the stairs and said in a trembling voice:
"Please, who is up there?"
For a moment there was silence, and then some one said in sepulchral tones:
"You won't ever tell?"
The girls stared at each other.
"What shall we say?" whispered Anne.
"Say 'never,'" suggested Judy, wishing she were well enough to manage this exciting episode.