"Mean anything!"
"Really I didn't. If you'll only let me go down and promise not to wake the house before I get out, why no one will ever know anything about it and I'll promise not to do it again."
"Just as soon as I get my breath I mean to wake up the whole house, and the whole town if I can." Buckley started across the room.
"Stop!"
"You promised not to scream."
"You forced me to promise. I am going to scream."
The bold, bad sophomore went down on his knees with his hands clasped toward the dark where the voice came from. "Oh, don't, please don't. Have pity on me."
"You stay right there in the moonlight."
"Right here?"
"Right there, and if you dare to move I'll scream with all my might." Buckley shivered and froze stiff.