It was also a great boon to be able to prepare her lessons in quiet.

Her family had never realized the necessity of silence during study hours, and she had been used to learn French vocabularies or translate her Latin exercises to a distracting accompaniment of Ernie's trumpet, Dorrie's and Mamie's quarrels, Godfrey's mouth organ, and Letty's strumming upon the piano.
"It would have been utterly impossible to do my prep.

at home!" she thought sometimes.

"I'd no idea what work was like before I came to Seaton 'High'! It would do those youngsters good to have a drilling! I wish they could have been in the Preparatory.

No, I don't! Because then I should have had them here, and it would have been good-by to all peace.