Let us--" "Girls," said the lady above, calling down quietly, but with ominous distinctness.
Silence and utter confusion ensued.

Then came a reply, in a tone of honeyed sweetness, from Miss Wylie: "Did you call us, DEAR Miss Wilson ?" "Yes.

Come up here, if you please, all three." There was some hesitation among them, each offering the other precedence.

At last they went up slowly, in the order, though not at all in the manner, of their flying descent; followed Miss Wilson into the class-room; and stood in a row before her, illumined through three western windows with a glow of ruddy orange light.

Miss Carpenter, the largest of the three, was red and confused.