She would see the Bird Woman at noon.
Algebra came first, and that professor was kind.

Perhaps she could slip to the superintendent and ask him for a book for the next lesson, and at noon--"Oh, dear Lord make it come true," prayed Elnora, at noon possibly she could sell some of those wonderful shining-winged things she had been collecting all her life around the outskirts of the Limberlost.
As she went down the long hall she noticed the professor of mathematics standing in the door of his recitation room.

When she passed him he smiled and spoke to her.
"I have been watching for you," he said, and Elnora stopped bewildered.
"For me ?" she questioned.
"Yes," said Professor Henley.

"Step inside." Elnora followed him into the room and closed the door behind them.
"At teachers' meeting last evening, one of the professors mentioned that a pupil had betrayed in class that she had expected her books to be furnished by the city.

I thought possibly it was you.