Winona entered with what seemed to her quite a small crowd.

Everybody appeared to know where to go, except herself.

She stood in such evident hesitation that one, more good-natured than the rest, remarked: "You'd better seize on any desk you fancy, as quick as you can.

They're getting taken up fast, if you want a front one!" Winona slid into the nearest seat at hand, and appropriated it by placing her note-book, pencil-box, ruler, atlas and dictionaries inside the desk.
The room was filling quickly.

Every moment fresh arrivals hurried in and took their places.