I fed them right enough.' Alice said she didn't mean that, and she went on-- 'I came down into the garden, and I saw a light in the house, and dark figures moving about.

I thought perhaps it was burglars, but Father hadn't come home, and Eliza had gone to bed, so I couldn't do anything.
Only I thought perhaps I would tell the rest of you.' 'Why didn't you tell us this morning ?' Noel asked.

And Alice explained that she did not want to get any one into trouble, even burglars.

'But we might watch to-night,' she said, 'and see if we see the light again.' 'They might have been burglars,' Noel said.

He was sucking the last bit of his macaroni.