An Autumn Foray Winona felt that she now started life at the High School on an entirely new basis.

Miss Bishop and Miss Huntley understood her limitations and judged her accordingly.

It was not by any means that they lowered their standard, but that they appreciated her difficulty in keeping up with the Form and gave her credit for her hard work.

And hard work it undoubtedly was.

She would get up early in the morning to revise her lessons before breakfast, and would sit toiling over books and exercises in the evenings till even Aunt Harriet--indefatigable worker herself--would tell her to stop, and wax moral on the folly of burning the candle at both ends.