A PIECE OF NEWS After the excitement of the famous game came a great calm.

The various teachers privately congratulated themselves on the marked improvement in lessons, and were secretly relieved with the thought that basketball was laid on the shelf for the rest of the school year.
Miriam Nesbit left Oakdale for a visit the Monday after the game, and did not return for two weeks.

The general opinion seemed to be that she was ashamed of herself; but the expression on her face when she did return was not indicative of either shame or humility.

She was more aggressive than before, and looked as though she considered the whole school far beneath her.

She refused to even nod to Grace, Nora, Anne or Jessica, while Julia Crosby remarked with a cheerful grin that she guessed Miriam had forgotten that they had ever been introduced.
During the Easter holidays, Tom Gray came down and his aunt gave a dinner to her "adopted children" in honor of her nephew.