“Yes!” cried Rachel, and everyone turned to her. “He talked about drawers,” she said in a shocked voice.

“What did he say?”

“He told us once not to toboggan down the deck on them,” put in Emily uncomfortably.

“Was that all?”

“He shouldn’t have talked about drawers,” said Rachel.

“Don’t you talk about them, then,” cried Edward: “Smarty!”

“Miss Fernandez,” said the lawyer diffidently, “have you anything to add to that?”

“What?”

“Well⁠ ⁠… what we are talking about.”