Her manner was non-committal; her blue eyes looked even more penetrating than usual.
"You will have been wondering what was going to happen about the matter of the scholarship," she began.
"Yes, Miss Bishop," answered Winona meekly.

She did not add that she had spent eight days in a mental purgatory.
"I of course placed the facts before the Governors, and we at once communicated with the parents of Marjorie Kaye.

We find, however, that in the meantime she has been elected a scholar of the Maria Harvey Foundation, and will therefore be unable to accept this scholarship.

Her papers and those of Garnet Emerson were the only ones of outstanding merit.

In re-examining the remaining eighteen we find a uniform level of mediocrity.