8/22 "I don't like it! I want to go back to the city!" Miss Cornelia braced herself. "I have rented this house for four months and I am going to stay," she said firmly. Her eyes sought Lizzie's, striving to pour some of her own inflexible courage into the latter's quaking form. But Lizzie would not look at her. Suddenly she started and gave a low scream; "There's somebody on the terrace!" she breathed in a ghastly whisper, clutching at Miss Cornelia's arm. |