A Crisis Winona had been more than a month, nearly five weeks indeed, at the Seaton High School.

In the first few days of her introduction to V.a.she had told herself that the difficulty of the work consisted largely in its newness, and that as soon as she grew accustomed to it she would sail along as swimmingly as Garnet Emerson, or Olave Parry, or Hilda Langley, or Agatha James.

Most unfortunately she found her theory acted in the opposite direction.

Closer acquaintance with her Form subjects proved their extreme toughness.

She was not nearly up to the standard of the rest of the girls.