“No.” Jane decided that she liked Miss Harper better than she did Mrs. Laramore—which wasn’t saying—much....
“The reporters are on their way to Alexandria—full cry.” Eloise all in emerald green, with her red hair in a classic coiffure, was like some radiant witch, exultant of evil. “You mustn’t scold me, Frederick. It was terribly exciting to tell them, and I adore excitement.”
“They aren’t there.”
“Where are they?”
Frederick chanted composedly, “We three know ... but we will never tell....”
“Adelaide will, when I get her alone.”
“Then Miss Barnes will. Do you know how young you look, Miss Barnes? I feel as if you’d tell me anything for a stick of candy.”
They roared at that. And Jane said, “Nobody ever made me do anything I didn’t want to do.”
And now Benny and the Captain looked at her, and looked again. What a voice the child had, and eyes!