ALOPECIA AND RUBEOLA Miss Cornelia dropped her newspaper.

Lizzie, frankly frightened, gave a little squeal and moved closer to her mistress.

Only Billy remained impassive but even he looked sharply in the direction whence the sound had come.
Miss Cornelia was the first of the others to recover her poise.
"Stop that! It was the wind!" she said, a little irritably--the "Stop that!" addressed to Lizzie who seemed on the point of squealing again.
"I think not wind," said Billy.

His very lack of perturbation added weight to the statement.

It made Miss Cornelia uneasy.