She felt a martyr, but resolved to smile through it all.

Garnet contemplated the problem at leisure during her drawing lesson, and arrived at a daring conclusion.

Without consulting her friend she marched off at four o'clock to the prefects' room, a little sanctum on the ground floor where the minutes' books of the various guilds and societies were kept, and where the school officers could hold meetings and transact business.
As she expected, Margaret was there alone, and said "Come in" in answer to her rap at the door.

The members of the Sixth kept much on their dignity, so it was rather a formidable undertaking even for a Fifth Form girl to interrupt the head of the school.

Margaret looked up inquiringly as Garnet entered.
"Yes, I'm fearfully busy," she replied to the murmured question.