Miss Cardrew looked up carelessly, as if to see where it came from; it stopped.
"She'll open her desk now," whispered Joy, stooping to pick up a book.
"See here, Joy, I almost wish we hadn't----" "We will read the fourteenth chapter of John," spoke up Miss Cardrew, with her Bible in her hand.

No, she hadn't opened her desk.

The Bible lay upon the outside of it.
"Oh, if that biscuit'll only last till she gets through praying!" "Hush-sh! She's looking this way." Miss Cardrew began to read.

She had read just four verses, when-- "Miaow!" Gypsy and Joy were trying very hard to find the place.

Miss Cardrew looked up and around the room.