CHAPTER V.
IN WENMERE WOODS.
"I could not think, for the moment," said Kitty, sitting up in bed and clasping her knees, "why I woke with a feeling that something dreadful had happened.

Of course it is Aunt Pike that is on my mind.
"She needn't be, then," said Betty, stretching herself luxuriously in her little bed.

"My letter will settle all that worry." "Um!" remarked Kitty thoughtfully, with none of the confidence shown by her young sister.

"If your letter doesn't make her come by the very first train, it will only be because she missed it.

I shouldn't be at all surprised to see her walk in, and Anna too." "You don't _really_ think she will ?" Betty, struck by something in Kitty's voice, had stopped stretching herself, and looked across at her sister.