As near as I can see you didn't have much last night." "Thank you, sir," said Amy.

"I'm sorry we--got lost, Mr.Fernald." "Are you, Byrd ?" There was a twinkle in the principal's eye.

"You know if you hadn't got lost you wouldn't have a nice new watch!" They were challenged several times before they reached their room by boys who wanted to know where they had been and what had happened to them, but both were too sleepy and tired to do the subject justice and so they observed a mysterious reticence and resisted all pleas.

They bathed, Amy nearly falling asleep in the tub, and then stretched themselves out gratefully on their beds.

That was the last either knew until, almost two hours later, Penny Durkin began an ambitious attempt on Handel's largo in the next room.