When Winona was chosen Games Captain, however, their interests seemed to separate.

Garnet was not athletic, she cared little for hockey or cricket, and preferred to devote her surplus energies to the Literary Society or the Debating Club.

Almost inevitably they had drifted apart.

Winona, wrapped up in the supreme fascinations of hockey matches and gymnasium practice, had chummed with Marjorie Kemp, Bessie Kirk, and Joyce Newton, who shared her enthusiasm for games.

She remembered with a pang of self-reproach that she had not walked round the playground with Garnet once this term.