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She had seen Eliza and Amanda eyeing them suspiciously . It would never do , after having managed the party so successfully , to let the cat out of the bag after the affair was over . The argument appealed to the girls , and they woke up with a suddenness almost more suspicious than their former sleepiness had been . It was not till noon that Billie found a chance to tell the girls what she had seen from the dormitory window after the rest of them were in bed . By that time the last evidence of last night 's party had been cleared away , and the girls were beginning to feel secure again . One by one they had run back to the dormitories between classes , made the remnants of the feast into small paper bundles , and had smuggled them down to the cellar and deposited them in the big box where all the papers and other rubbish was kept until the man of all work about Three Towers carted it off into the woods to be burnt up . So now , in hilarious spirits , they answered Billie 's call and flung themselves in various characteristic and joyful attitudes upon her bed .