"
"You dined in the school-room on Friday. Were the baby-house doors
open then!"
"I--I'm sure I didn't notice."
"You didn't open them to take anything out?"
"What should I want with the things in the baby-house?"
"Did you, or did you not!"
"I--I didn't--at least--"
"In one word, did you open them? yes or no."
"No."
"What time did you go out after eating your dinner?"
"Bother! how is one to remember! It's all nonsense making such a
fuss. The children fancied they put in ever so much more than they
did, and very likely took out some."
"No; David's reckoning was accurate. I wrote down all I knew of; and
I am sure none was taken out, for early that very morning I had put
in a sixpence myself, and the cup was then full of coppers, with that
little silver threepenny of David's with the edge turned up upon the
top."
"Then you must have left the door undone!" said Henry delighted.
"I dare not be positive," said Christabel; "but I believe I remember
bolting it; and if I had not done so, it would have flown open
sooner."
"Oh, but the wind, you know.
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