I only slept outside two nights, and I had my jacket then." Meg's face was pale with horror at her sister's adventure.

Surely no girl in the wide world but Judy Woolcot would have attempted such a harebrained project as walking all those miles with three-and-six in her pocket.
"How COULD you ?" was all she could find to say.

"I hadn't meant to walk all the way," Judy said, with a faint mile.

"I had seven shillings in a bit of paper in my pocket, as well as the three-and-six, and I knew it would take me a long way in the train.

But then I lost it after I had started, and I didn't believe in going back just for that, so, of course, I had to walk." Meg touched her cheek softly.
"It's no wonder you got so thin," she said.
"Won't the Miss Buttons be raising a hue-and-cry after you ?" Pip asked.
"It's a wonder they've not written to the pater to say you have skedaddled." "Oh! Marian and I made that all safe," Judy said, with a smile of recollective pleasure.