"No," said Agnes, shortly. "I did not do that. I just told Mr. Buckham how sorry I was for taking the berries."
"Oh! What did he say, Aggie?" asked another girl.
"He forgave me. He was real nice about it," Agnes confessed.
"But he told on us. Otherwise we wouldn't be in this pickle," Mary Breeze said. "I don't call that nice."
Agnes had it on her tongue to say that she did not believe Mr. Bob Buckham had sent the list of the culprit's names to Mr. Marks. Although she had said nothing more to Neale O'Neil about it, she knew that the boy was confident that the list of girls' names reached the principal of the Milton High through some other channel than that of the farmer. Agnes herself was assured that Mr. Buckham could not write. Nor did he and his wife seem like people who would do such a thing. Besides, how had the farmer obtained the girls' names, in the first place?
Like Neale, too, Agnes had a feeling that Trix Severn somehow held the key to the mystery. But the Corner House girl would not say so aloud. Indeed, she had refused to acknowledge this belief to Neale.
So now she kept still and allowed the other girls to do the talking and surmising.
"Well, say what you may," Myra Stetson said at last. "Trix is one lucky girl. But she'll make a fine Innocent Delight----"
"I don't think!" finished Eva. "Aggie is the one for that. A blonde. Who ever but Professor Ware would think of giving such a part to a dark girl?"
"Let's not criticise," Agnes said, with a sigh. "We can't be in it, but we mustn't knock."
"Right-oh!" said Myra, the cheery one. "We can go to the show and root for the others."
"Well!" gasped Eva, "I'd like to see myself applaud Trix Severn as Innocent Delight! I--guess--not!"
Although Ruth Kenway had not been selected for one of the speaking parts, she was quite as excited, nevertheless, as those who had been thus chosen. To keep one's mind upon lessons and _The Carnation Countess_ at the same time, was difficult even for the steady-minded Ruth.
Dot went "buzzing" about the house like a veritable bee, singing the song that was being taught her and her mates. Tess' class were to be butterflies and hummingbirds. And--actually!--Tess had been given a part to speak.