So now you know! You'd better be careful, Mabel Hughes.

That's all we came to say.

You may wash your face if you like before you get into bed again." The ten members of the inquisition, knowing that time was passing, and that the prefects would soon be coming upstairs, judged it wise to break up the meeting, and taking their candles beat a stately retreat to their respective dormitories.

Lorna and Irene, returning to their cubicles, heard Elsie chuckling.

She had not interfered in any way with the performance, but it had evidently entertained her.