"I understood that they were such fine players.

Yet they don't seem to be able to hold their own.

It looks as though their defeat were inevitable, unless they do some remarkable playing during the next half." Mrs.Harlowe, too, was disappointed.

She wondered why Grace had boasted so much of her team.
"After all, they are little more than children," she thought.

"Those juniors seem older to me." As for Grace and her team--they were sitting in a room just off the gymnasium gloomily discussing the situation.