The coaching from Miss Lever was of inestimable value.

It supplied just the gaps in which she was deficient, and gave her an adequate grasp of her three toughest subjects.

Slowly she began to make headway, she saw light in mathematical problems that had before been meaningless formulae, chemistry was less of a hopeless tangle, and Vergil's lines construed into understandable sentences instead of utter nonsense.

It was only gradual progress, however.

She had much ground to cover before she caught up the Form.