The extra afternoon classes with Miss Goodson were no longer necessary, leaving a delightful period of leisure half-hours at school.

Winona intended to employ these blissful intervals in cricket practice, at the tennis courts, in helping to arrange the museum, and in carrying out several other pet schemes that she had been forced hitherto to set aside.

Bessie Kirk had made a good deputy, but it was nice to take the reins into her own hands once more, and feel that she was head of the Games department.

She coached her champions assiduously.

At tennis Emily Cooper and Bertha March stood out like planets among the stars.