"Okay. I'll continue. Oh, first you'd better get out of bed and sit on
your chairs, please."
Obediently Flip and Gloria sat on the chairs at the foot of their beds.
Erna nodded in satisfaction. She stood, hands on hips, looking at them,
while Jackie lounged more comfortably on her bed.
"Do you promise to keep our dormitory secrets till the death?" Erna
asked.
Flip and Gloria nodded.
"And to do anything we tell you to do during the period of probation?"
Flip and Gloria nodded again.
"Good. Now we want to ask you a couple of questions."
Jackie took over. She sat up, her feet half in and half out of her
crimson woolly slippers, dangling over the foot of the bed, and
pointed at Gloria. "Who do you like most in the school?"
"You and Erna," Gloria answered promptly.
"I told you she'd say that." Erna nodded at Jackie.