Remember, that such unladylike conduct must never happen again at the hostel." Winona considered herself very much aggrieved.

She had waved on the spur of the moment, and to have her innocent and impulsive act construed into "signaling to gentlemen," and reproved as "unladylike conduct," was highly aggravating.

Miss Kelly was a disciplinarian, and of a very suspicious temperament.

Her idea of duty was the French one of "surveillance." She never trusted the girls, or put them upon their honor; her mode of procedure was to keep an eye upon them, and to pop in suddenly and surprise them.

They resented this attitude extremely.
"Miss Kelly always gives us credit for going to do the very worst!" grumbled Betty Carlisle.
"She puts ideas into our heads!" declared Doris Hooper indignantly.
The gist of the trouble was this: the girls at the hostel expected to have as much liberty as if they were in their own homes, while Miss Kelly, who had formerly been a mistress at St.Chad's, wished to enforce strict boarding-school rules.