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Asked Jill . `` No ; sometimes the girl had other things to do . Her aunt would want her to go somewhere with her , or other cousins were expected whom the girl must entertain ; and she knew the boy did not like other guests to be there when he was , so she never asked him to come over at such times . On such occasions she did sometimes run up to the tower at eight o'clock and wave three times , and that meant , ` Dead Day . ' So the boy , after all , never drew a real breath of relief until he made sure that no dreaded third wave was to follow the one or the two . '' `` Seems to me , '' observed David , `` that all this was sort of one-sided . Did n't the boy say anything ? ''