She hated them so and was so terrified by them that suddenly they began to make her angry and she felt as if she should like to fly into a tantrum herself and frighten him as he was frightening her.

She was not used to any one's tempers but her own.

She took her hands from her ears and sprang up and stamped her foot.
"He ought to be stopped! Somebody ought to make him stop! Somebody ought to beat him!" she cried out.
Just then she heard feet almost running down the corridor and her door opened and the nurse came in.

She was not laughing now by any means.

She even looked rather pale.
"He's worked himself into hysterics," she said in a great hurry.