Chapter 23 IT'S ALL SURPRISES, NOWADAYS!

"Now, let's get to business."

And the quartette, alias the "China Committee," as Amethyst had playfully nicknamed them, gathered round the large table in the vicarage playroom and began to consider ways and means.

"I've got a box full of patterns, and a long letter from Miss Daverel," began Monica, who had been elected president by virtue of