Elsie promptly introduced her cousin to Miss Barbour and begged that they might all inspect the machine.

Lieutenant Mainwaring good-naturedly explained the various parts; perhaps he rather enjoyed a visit to a Ladies' School! He did not stay long, however, but after a few minutes started his engine and went soaring up again into the blue of the sky, and wheeling over the towers of the old Minster was soon lost to sight behind some clouds.
"It must be glorious to fly!" sighed Winona.
In spite of Miss Kelly's injunctions she could not help looking out of her window every morning for the aeroplane, and giving a surreptitious wave.

She told herself that she was only acting patriotically in cheering on our aerial defenses.

The back of the hostel opened into the school playground, and one day Winona, taking a run there for exercise before breakfast, heard the familiar whirring, and looking up, beheld the flying-machine poised just overhead.

She heard a shout from the occupant, and something dropped into the playground.