Your brain seems to have been lying fallow since you came to school! You will report yourself to Miss Bishop at four o'clock this afternoon." The rest of the morning passed like a bad dream to Winona.

It was a rare event for a teacher to send a girl to the head mistress.

The prospect of the coming interview made her cold with apprehension.

She avoided Garnet at one o'clock, and hurried out of the dressing-room without speaking to any one.

She had a wild project of pleading a headache, and begging Aunt Harriet to let her stop at home for the rest of the day.