to me one evening, but it was beyond her, and we only got into a muddle.

Oh dear, I could cry! To have worked to within six weeks of the exam., and then to have to slack like this! I'm the unluckiest girl in the world!" Winona comforted her poor friend as best she could.

She had an idea at the back of her mind, but she did not venture to confide it to Garnet until she had first consulted Aunt Harriet about it.

It was no less a proposal than that they should do their preparation together, and that by reading the work aloud she could act eyes for her chum.It.would be difficult, no doubt, but not an utter impossibility, and it was absolutely the only way in which Garnet could receive help.

It would necessitate their spending many hours daily in each other's company, and to arrange this seemed to be the difficulty.