This left her empty-handed as she approached the big stone high school building.

She entered bravely and inquired her way to the office of the superintendent.

There she learned that she should have come the previous week and arranged about her classes.

There were many things incident to the opening of school, and one man unable to cope with all of them.
"Where have you been attending school ?" he asked, while he advised the teacher of Domestic Science not to telephone for groceries until she knew how many she would have in her classes; wrote an order for chemicals for the students of science; and advised the leader of the orchestra to hire a professional to take the place of the bass violist, reported suddenly ill.
"I finished last spring at Brushwood school, district number nine," said Elnora.

"I have been studying all summer.