[The Story of the Treasure Seekers by E. Nesbit]@TWC D-Link bookThe Story of the Treasure Seekers CHAPTER 12 29/34
Go to bed.
Cross with you? No, stupid! Only another time you'd better not keep secrets.' So she kissed Oswald, and he let her, and she went back to bed. The next day Albert's uncle took Noel away, before Oswald had time to persuade Alice that we ought to tell him about the sixpence.
Alice was very unhappy, but not so much as in the night: you can be very miserable in the night if you have done anything wrong and you happen to be awake. I know this for a fact. None of us had any money except Eliza, and she wouldn't give us any unless we said what for; and of course we could not do that because of the honour of the family.
And Oswald was anxious to get the sixpence to give to the telegraph people because he feared that the badness of that sixpence might have been found out, and that the police might come for Alice at any moment.
I don't think I ever had such an unhappy day.
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