It needed all her courage to persevere.

Sometimes she longed just for an evening to throw it up, and go and play tennis instead, but every hour was important to Garnet, and must not be lost.
Winona often had to set her teeth and force herself to resist the alluring sound of the tennis in the next-door garden, where she had a standing invitation to come and play, and it took all the will power of which she was capable to focus her attention on the examination subjects.

She tried not to let Garnet see how much the effort cost her; the latter was sensitive, and painfully conscious of being a burden.
Miss Beach dosed both the girls with tonics, and insisted upon their taking a certain amount of exercise.
"Work by all means, but don't over-work," was her recommendation.
"There's such a thing as bending a bow until it breaks.

I don't like to see such white cheeks!" The examination was for entering Dunningham University, and must be taken at that city.

The Governors of the Seaton High School had offered a scholarship, tenable for three years, to whichever of their candidates, obtaining First Class honors, appeared highest on the list of passes.