"I don't see why I should," she thought with vague resentment.

"It's as much my room as hers." It was one of the requirements of the school that all trunks must be emptied and sent to the store-room on arrival, and presently, as Ethelinda seemed ignorant of the rule, Mary told her and offered to help her unpack.

The answer was excessively polite, so polite that it left Mary at greater arm's length than before.

Fanchon was to do the unpacking.

She had come on purpose for that.