By the last week in January, the ordeal was past.
Eleanor Savell had not yet returned to school.

Whether or not she would be allowed to return was a question that occasioned a great deal of discussion among three lower classes of girls.

Edna Wright and the other members of the sorority organized by Eleanor were loud in their expressions of disapproval as to Miss Thompson's "severity" toward Eleanor.

They talked so freely about it, that it reached the principal's ears.

She lost no time in sending for them, and after a session in the office, they emerged looking subdued and crestfallen; and after that it was noted that when in conversation with their schoolmates, they made no further allusion to Miss Thompson's methods of discipline.
There was a faint murmur of surprise around the study hall one morning, however, when Miss Thompson walked in to conduct the opening exercises, accompanied by Eleanor, who, without looking at the school, seated herself at the desk nearest to where the principal stood.
When the morning exercises were concluded, Miss Thompson nodded slightly to Eleanor, who turned rather pale, then rose, and, facing the school, said in a clear voice: "I wish to apologize to Miss Thompson for impertinence and insubordination.