He had not yet got his khaki, but he promised to have a photo taken as soon as ever he was in military garb, and she looked forward to showing the portrait of her soldier brother to the girls in her Form.

She began a pair of socks for him at once.

I regret to say that Winona's patriotic knitting had languished very much during the last two terms, but this personal stimulus revived her ardor.
She even took her sock to the tennis court, and, emulating the example of Patricia Marshall and several other enthusiasts, got quite good pieces done between the sets.

She would have taken it to cricket also, but Kirsty had sternly made a by-law prohibiting all knitting on the pitch since Ellinor Cooper, when supposed to be fielding, had surreptitiously taken her work from her pocket and missed the best catch of the afternoon, to her everlasting disgrace and the scorn of the indignant Games Captain.
Kirsty was keen at present upon each Form having its own Eleven, and had arranged some school matches as trials of skill.

The first of these, Sixth _v._ Fifth, was fixed for the following Saturday afternoon.
Winona, to her ecstatic and delirious delight, had been elected captain of the combined V.a.and V.b.