"Don't you remember, Marian, that back in our junior year, when Eleanor tried to get Anne's part in the play, I cautioned the girls to never put themselves in a position where Eleanor might injure them." "Yes, I remember, now," Marian faltered, "but it is too late." "I might try to checkmate her at her own game by threatening to tell the story of the missing costumes," reflected Grace aloud.

"I'll try it at any rate.

But even if we do succeed in silencing Eleanor, where are we to get the money to pay back the class fund?
We can't arrest that miserable Henry Hammond without making the affair public, and this simply must remain a private matter.

It is the hardest problem that I have ever been called upon to contend with.
"You must brace up, Marian, and go back to school to-morrow," directed Grace.

"If you keep on this way it will serve to create suspicion.