She could only attempt about half of the questions, and even in these she was not ready with dates.

Then suddenly Percy's advice flashed into her mind.

"Write from a romantic standpoint, and make your paper sound poetical." It seemed rather a forlorn hope, and she feared it would scarcely satisfy her examiners, but in such a desperate situation anything was worth trying.

Winona possessed a certain facility in essay writing.

Prose composition had been her favorite lesson at Miss Harmon's.