"But if you felt so bad, whatever was you out so long for, Bunting?
I thought you'd gone away somewhere! D'you mean you only went to get the paper ?" "I just stopped for a second to look at it under the lamp," he muttered apologetically.
"That was a silly thing to do!" "Perhaps it was," he admitted meekly.
Daisy had taken up the paper.

"Well, they don't say much," she said disappointedly.

"Hardly anything at all! But perhaps Mr.
Chandler 'll be in soon again.

If so, he'll tell us more about it." "A young girl like you oughtn't to want to know anything about murders," said her stepmother severely.

"Joe won't think any the better of you for your inquisitiveness about such things.