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Direen carnations floating over Dartmoor?

However, they knew better than to question orders when being punished

"Disa foolish and disheartened

Dimity cast herself dramatically on the couch in the parlor when they returned to their chaht to be in bed, but such a calamity as this must be discussed ioed Oh, the tragedy of it all!"

Sophronia said, "That was odd"

"No, it wasn’t odd at all It was exactly what I said would happen" Di hairpins and then winding theether into aher look like a mad hermit--a sparkly mad hermit

"No, not that What’s odd hen Lady Linette asked us ere looking for in the record room"

"I missed that bit"

"Exactly! Sometimes the most important piece of information is the chunk left out of the conversation" Sophronia singsonged the sentence in a fine imitation of Professor Lefoux’s perfect elocution

"Oh" Dimity put down her hairpin nest, interested despite her annoyance "You think she knee were looking for?"

"Or the school has soy that allows them to track what files we exaertips?"

"No"

"Me neither Then again…" Sophronia trailed off, biting her lip

"Then again what?"

"It’s possible they knee were after and planted false information for us to find"

"Could this be a lesson? Do they want us to figure that out?"

"Maybe Or , not really"

"Lady Linette said she wasn’t surprised"

"Lady Linette is the mistress of misdirection, remember?"

Dimity flopped back "Sometimes I hate this place Wouldn’t you like it if just once everything was exactly as it seemed?"

"No, that’s a horrible idea"

"You would say that So what did you learn, misinformation or no?"

"Mada, presumed lost to evil That Lady Linette may think her a traitor, which is why she won’t believe er she is back with the Pickleossip in the offing "Yours, one? Vanished Wonder where they file those ones--you know, the students who got away"

"Possibly also with the lost Anything juicy?"

"Not in mine, except they actually think I’m better than I think I am Which is nice"

"But not a surprise, Dimity Most of us think that"

Dimity blushed with pleasure "Why, thank you Monique’s says a lot about her hive When the school punished her by not allowing her to finish, they reencer roster but kept her record in play I guess she has enough training to reame" Dimity knew Sophronia desperately wanted to hear about the Sophronia file Of course, Dier Sophronia let her have her fun After all, she felt guilty about getting the"

"How so?"

"Terribly fat You know her father is in all sorts of pies?"